> On Thu, 8 May 1997, Bryn Paul Arnold Jones wrote:
>
> > A better thing to do would be to kill off the latest started process
> > consuming more that x% of the memory. Ie if you start X, and netscape,
> > and get X with 50%, and netscape with 30%, and x% is 25 then netscape will
> > be killed (if set at x% was 30+, it would be X again)
>
> Is this a kernel thing though? Wouldn't a user space daemon do this job
> just fine..
Good point. A really easy thing to do would be to toss a message up to
kerneld (or another daemon listening on the IPC channel) which could then
take whatever action the admin likes. If one were to attack this problem,
that would be the more aesthetically proper route.
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Todd Graham Lewis MindSpring Enterprises tlewis@mindspring.com