> What happens is some script/program has a bug and manages to consume
> memory in a loop, fairly slowly over a time. Today it was a perl script, a
> few months ago it was wml and I think I've seen rsync+ftpds do it too..
It depends what limits you have set on it
> Frankly, this sucks. I would much rather the kernel panic and reboot
> itself than die like this, it takes days for someone to get on site and
> restart the box by hand :<
Compile in the softdog driver and run the softdog daemon.
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