TYT> From: Rik van Riel <Rik.vanRiel@phil.ruu.nl>
TYT> Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 15:24:43 +0200 (MET DST)
TYT> I read this thread and linux does indead have this problem.
TYT> I also read the FreeBSD sourcecode, and saw a (somewhat)
TYT> elegant solution for this. If FreeBSD is out of memory, it
TYT> looks through the processes and kills off the largest one.
TYT> This should be doable in Linux too...
TYT> The problem is that the largest process is often the X
TYT> server. Often this will indeed free a lot of memory, but
TYT> it's not necessarily the best thing to do...
In the case of protection against a run-away process often this
process will be the largest one. In those cases, it will help.
-- Peter Mutsaers Lucent Technologies, Network Systems plm@lucent.com Huizen, the Netherlands