Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 16:30:00 -0500 From: mikk0022@maroon.tc.umn.edu To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Low VM killing policy. Message-ID: <199708232130.QAA02348@x173-171.reshalls.umn.edu>
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I recently upgraded to XFree 3.3 + Matrox Millenium. The new server takes up a lot of memory (RES: 11M according to top). This causes it to be killed whenever I get low on VM. This is all well and good, except that XFree doesn't give up control of the console when it dies. My machine is effectively locked, since I don't have another machine I can use to contact it. Is there any way to "protect" a particular process from being killed when the system runs out of memory? That is, could I tell the system to sacrifice Netscape or something? Alternatively, is there a way that I could arrange to get control of the console after XFree is killed? Thanks, -Chris
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