On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 09:18:15AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
[snip]
>
> In an earlier incarnation of this thread, I seem to remember someone
> mentionning some smart behavior of MVS which looks at recent allocation
> patterns and kills the faster-growing process.
>
>
Then a program could slowly allocate slow memory chunks till it allocates
all the available memory and the kernel kills some inocent process that just
started. Loop this untill you have no other process ... eventually the
offender will die after slowly putting all the others in the trashcan.
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