If you've ever actually experienced this, the wisdom of doing so becomes
obvious. In such a situation, the whole system is typically thrashing
rather badly, so not much new or useful is getting started anyway (including
desparate attempts by people logged on to rectify the situation :-)).
Processes started after the troublemaker start dying, but there aren't many
of them and the troublemaker gets killed rather quickly on, and the system
returns to normal. The only problem with this method is if the process
causing the problem started a long time ago, and just recently started
misbehaving. Netscape has a way of doing that :-)
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Tim Hollebeek | Disclaimer :=> Everything above is a true statement,
Electron Psychologist | for sufficiently false values of true.
Princeton University | email: tim@wfn-shop.princeton.edu
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