> Killing the system daemon *is* a DoS. > > It would stop eg. the database or the web server, which is > generally the main task of systems that run a database or > a web server. One of the problems with picking on tasks that fork a lot is that describes apache perfectly. So a high loaded apache will get shot over a rapid memory eating cgi script. Any heuristic is going to be iffy - but that isn't IMHO a good one to work from. If anything "who allocated lots of RAM recently" may be a better guide but we don't keep stats for that. Alan -- 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>