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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Doug Lee <dgl@dlee.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: Can a process be made immune to out-of-swap-space kills?
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On 2005-10-29 16:34, Doug Lee <dgl@dlee.org> wrote:
> Sometimes, I accidentally run something that eats up too much
> memory and causes the pager to run out of swap space and start
> shooting down processes to rectify the situation.  Sometimes,
> the process chosen for demolition happens to be `screen.'
> Since this process sorta manages a whole lot of others and, on
> being zapped out of existence, leaves many of them running but
> inaccessible, I find this choice decidedly inconvenient.
>
> Is there a way for me to force FreeBSD to leave `screen' (or
> any other process) alone when selecting something to kill to
> free memory?

Hmmm, why are user limits not applied?  Wouldn't it be a nicer
way to solve the "rogue process" problems?