On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 12:53:37PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > Of course, you pretty much have to catch it before it gets horrible .. > or swapping displays or whatever over to that other terminal to kill the > other processes might be tough, and OOM kill might decide for you. :) Setting reasonable user limits also fixes the problem before it occurs. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
