On Wednesday 10 of February 2010, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 02/10/2010 03:54 PM, Lubos Lunak wrote: > > Simply computing the cost of the whole children subtree (or a > > reasonable approximation) avoids the need for any magic numbers and gives > > a much better representation of how costly the subtree is, since, well, > > it is the cost itself. > > That assumes you want to kill off that entire tree. As said in another mail, I think I actually do, since the entire tree is indentified as the problem. But regardless of that, surely computing the cost of a forkbomb by computing something that is close to the actual cost of it is better than trying magic numbers? -- Lubos Lunak openSUSE Boosters team, KDE developer l.lunak@xxxxxxx , l.lunak@xxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>