Re: Memory hogs

Rik van Riel (riel@nl.linux.org)
Fri, 16 Jul 1999 20:46:08 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 16 Jul 1999 bernd.paysan@gmx.de wrote:
> Rik van Riel wrote:
> > Please don't. My little algorithm (with no overhead on a normal
> > system) works great -- it has been tested by simulation folks
> > who want a 16MB netscape killed in favor of their week-old,
> > 150MB simulation.
>
> Ok, I'll adapt your patch. The only gripe I have is that it
> doesn't send out warning shoots before, that allow tasks to quit
> nicely.

That can be added without much effort. The real hard part has
been in getting the 'task chooser' right...

Rik -- Open Source: you deserve to be in control of your data.
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