Re: need a daemon that kills off memory hogs

2001-10-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 06:37:18PM -0400, Avdi B. Grimm wrote: > This is driving me nuts... every now and then, for one reason or > another, some program(s) will gobble up all available memory (128MB RAM, > 256MB Swap) and effectively freeze the computer. It's not a single, > isolateable program,

Re: need a daemon that kills off memory hogs

2001-10-20 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Alson van der Meulen: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 06:37:18PM -0400, Avdi B. Grimm wrote: > > This is driving me nuts... every now and then, for one reason or > > another, some program(s) will gobble up all available memory (128MB RAM, > > 256MB Swap) and effectively freeze the computer. I

Re: need a daemon that kills off memory hogs

2001-10-20 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 06:37:18PM -0400, Avdi B. Grimm wrote: > This is driving me nuts... every now and then, for one reason or > another, some program(s) will gobble up all available memory (128MB RAM, > 256MB Swap) and effectively freeze the computer. It's not a single, > isolateable program,

need a daemon that kills off memory hogs

2001-10-19 Thread Avdi B. Grimm
This is driving me nuts... every now and then, for one reason or another, some program(s) will gobble up all available memory (128MB RAM, 256MB Swap) and effectively freeze the computer. It's not a single, isolateable program, it's usually caused by something different each time. Sometimes it cau