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Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>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...
>

For every strategy there's a counterstrategy.  Killing the biggest is
simple to implement and usually right.

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