> I agree that a certain amount of memory should be reserved for root
> for this purpose.
A simple fork by init or inetd could use the memory if it was
simply reserved for a root process. Better would be to have
whatever handles the "ooh, bugger" policy start at boot time
and lock the memory it needs down.
Mike
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