Re: Out of memory kernel deat

Raul Miller (rdm@test.legislate.com)
Mon, 12 May 1997 18:23:35 -0400


On May 12, Tim Hollebeek wrote
> SIGDANGER is essentially useless because it is AIX specific; >99% of
> software ignores it so it gains you nothing.

Unless you have a daemon ready to implement some kind of process killing
policy when it gets the signal. I think you'd need real-time extensions
to write this daemon right (e.g. lock it into memory). And, of course,
you'd want it to be very, very small.

-- 
Raul