[ Monday, March 6, 2000 ] Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, James Manning wrote:
> >If the case isn't this clear-cut, though, I think killing by pid
> >(highest->lowest) may be a decent hueristic since the most important
> >processes (init, loggers, etc) tend to be long-running ones started
> >early so they maintain pid's < 100.
>
> Maybe 15 years ago. I'm running RedHat 6.1, and after the system
> starts up most persistant daemons have PID's in the 300-1000
> range. I would suspect it would be similar for other dists as
> well.
my point being that since they started up before other things their
pid's will be lower. Yes pid's can wrap, but that's why it's called
a heuristic. Did you actually have anything useful to say?
James
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