Re: Memory hogs

Rik van Riel (riel@nl.linux.org)
Fri, 16 Jul 1999 23:33:17 +0200 (CEST)


On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Rogier Wolff wrote:

[warning shot]
> > That can be added without much effort. The real hard part has
> > been in getting the 'task chooser' right...
>
> That really isn't easy.
>
> You're in a "we're completely out of memory" situation already, and
> having the application clean up may mean it wants to rewrite its
> config files. Requiring buffers and other resources.

Once you're completely out of memory, you're too late. We
can simply start killing once we get very very near...

Rik -- Open Source: you deserve to be in control of your data.
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