From: dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk (Dave `geek' Gymer) Subject: Re: Thought: compressed libc ? Date: 11 Mar 1993 09:52:42 GMT
In article <1ndbqqINNpcr@life.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
>> I have a simple suggestion, Instead of 3, why can't we kill the
>> offending process? In fact, i kinda rather have that happen
>> first then the freeze. But, that's just a matter of taste.
>The `offending process' may be something completely innocuous, like
>login, which needs to allocate a buffer to read the password file.
How about killing the process with the most memory allocated to it?
-- Dave
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