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> How about the following steps, in order?
>
> 1. optional SIGWARN, or whatever it is AIX sends
b. if we do this, give the process an extra long time slice
to clean up before being preempted, this should lower thrashing.
> 2. optional removal from scheduler
> 3. optional (highly recommended) process killer
> 4. mandatory oops, kill everything, and reboot
>
> For the SIGWARN, glibc could return freed memory to the OS.
> (would need to be disabled for init and other critical things)
>
> The process killer alone is simple though, and already written.
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