At 12:20 AM +0900 7/15/99, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> In which case the program that consumed all memory will be killed.
> The program killed is +NOT+ the one demanding memory, it's the one
> with most of it.

But that isn't always the best process to have killed off...

One of my main freebsd machines is mainly here to run one
process, which is a pretty good-sized process (>40meg).  If
I did get into a memory-shortage problem, I do *not* want
that process killed, I'd want some other processes killed.

It would be nice to have a way to indicate that, a la SIGDANGER.

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