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From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
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Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)
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On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 02:47:20PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote:

> But I have a valid point: can we do something better than posting a SIGKILL
> to the largest process?

I think AIX sends all running processes a magic signal (SIGDANGER?)
which indicates that the system is short of resources, and if things
don't improve real soon then it sends a SIGKILL. Not that I'd suggest
that AIX does things the right way...

	David.


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