Re: A true story of a crash.

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Sat, 15 Aug 1998 10:37:56 +0200

> There's only one problem with this strategy --- which was originally
> used by AIX, by the way. If the largest process happens to be the X
> server, and the reason why you're out of memory was because you have
> lots and lots of (smaller) X programs running, the kernel will kill off
> the X server, which will keep the system up and free lots of memory
> (since not only will the X server exit, but all of the X client
> applications will die too!).

As far as I understand the original description of the strategy, it kills
all non-root processes first before killing X, therefore this effect will
happen only when you use X as root.

Anyway, it doesn't mean this strategy is the best solution available.

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"IBM = Inferior, But Marketable"


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