Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 14:01:59 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Ivan <Ivan.Djelic@prism.uvsq.fr>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Out of swap handling and X lockups in 3.2R Message-ID: <37E935B7.866937AB@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909221227080.312-100000@picnic.mat.net> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909221024370.6368-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> <199909221727.LAA14290@mt.sri.com> <199909221738.KAA16257@apollo.backplane.com>
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Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> How about this - add an 'importance' resource. The lower the number,
> the more likely the process will be killed if the system runs out of
> resources. We would also make fork automatically decrement the number
> by one in the child.
As far as I'm concerned, you could use the UID for this. ;^)
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