Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Aug 1998 06:21:50 -0400 (EDT) | From | Trevor Johnson <> | Subject | Re: A true story of a crash. |
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> However, users might not find that to be the most reasonable behaviour, > since they might lose a lot of work, and the server clearly killed many > more processes than it needed to.
What if, instead of immediately sending SIGKILL, it sent a gradually escalating series of signals, accompanied by suitable printk()s, over a period of a few tens of seconds (stopping the process if enough memory were freed), with SIGKILL only as a last resort? __ Trevor Johnson
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