On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:16:01PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Your ulimits are applied first. This only kicks in at the point something
> has to die and we are totally out of memory
>
> It scores down root processes, stuff that is touching hw etc. Basically it
> means when the shit hits the fan we shoot the user not their X server 8)
Would there be any way to try and say "kill these procs first?" So far
every time I've seen the OOM stuff kick in (admitidly on 2.2.14) it never
seemed to kill the rapant process (squid), just everything else (bye-bye init).
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