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Date:      Fri, 14 Mar 2003 21:44:54 +0100
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <nick@garage.freebsd.pl>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br>
Cc:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>, Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>, David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm ... SIGDANGER
Message-ID:  <20030314204454.GI567@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <3E723A8A.8070100@tcoip.com.br>
References:  <8023.1047662161@critter.freebsd.dk> <p05200f2bba97e5a92150@[128.113.24.47]> <20030314140414.V4480@odysseus.silby.com> <3E723A8A.8070100@tcoip.com.br>

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On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 05:24:42PM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
+> No, there are a couple of other cases:
+>=20
+> 3) Serious Processing(tm) application blithely allocates memory until=20
+> memory allocation fails. At that point it stops allocating memory.=20
+> Another application then uses some previously untouched allocated=20
+> memory, and first application gets killed losing hours of work.
+>=20
+> 4) Very Important Server allocates a lot of memory, and gets killed when=
=20
+> stupid user starts another xterm.
+>=20
+> Whatever you may or may not think the correct way of handling these two=
=20
+> cases is, people *have* complained of our present way of handling them.

Why not choose process to kill by their priority?

If we got some important processes even without uid=3D0 we could renice them
to value less than 0.

--=20
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
UNIX Systems Administrator
http://garage.freebsd.pl
Am I Evil? Yes, I Am.

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