Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 19:58:33 +0100 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>, Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>, bright@rush.net, dcs@newsguy.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, jon@oaktree.co.uk, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) Message-ID: <19990713195833.A4167@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907131446351.86113-100000@janus.syracuse.net>; from Brian F. Feldman on Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 02:47:20PM -0400 References: <199907131813.LAA79534@apollo.backplane.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907131446351.86113-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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