Replying to myself... You'd have to be able to specify the absolute maximum memory use for a process to ensure you'd still kill run-aways (These would go first! regardless of the other rules maybe).
Matthew Thyer wrote: > > There is obviously a problem when all swap is exhausted. > > The only solution is to allow the additional memory *use* to succeed AND > to warn the sysadmin that ALL virtual memory has been exhausted. > -- /=======================================================================\ | Work: matthew.th...@dsto.defence.gov.au | Home: thy...@camtech.net.au | \=======================================================================/ "If it is true that our Universe has a zero net value for all conserved quantities, then it may simply be a fluctuation of the vacuum of some larger space in which our Universe is imbedded. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." E. P. Tryon from "Nature" Vol.246 Dec.14, 1973 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message