Re: A true story of a crash.

AndroSyn (androsyn@n3ryb.dyn.ml.org)
Sat, 15 Aug 1998 17:40:28 -0400 (EDT)


On Sat, 15 Aug 1998 linker@z.ml.org wrote:

>
> If all the fancy kill rules are too complicated then just killing all user
> tasks would be better then the current situation.. Once the system is out
> of ram you might as well hit reset, so killing the user tasks would be
> better.
>
The old KISS principle...Having a locked system and the admin 2 hours away
could be a definite problem....If you kill all users tasks(have init go
down to single user and back to multiuser, you at least have a chance of
the system stablizing itself. Sure a few connections get dropped to
various daemons, but isn't this a bit better than no connections until
whoever realizes the reset button needs pressed....

Aaron

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