From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from user-24-214-63-227.knology.net ([24.214.63.227] helo=smtp4.knology.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18C0LO-0001BN-00 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:26:22 -0500 Received: (qmail 25866 invoked from network); 13 Nov 2002 16:26:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO potpal) (24.214.253.35) by smtp4.knology.net with SMTP; 13 Nov 2002 16:26:17 -0000 Received: from kennyhitt by potpal with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18C0L9-0004Sg-00 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:26:07 -0600 Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:26:07 -0600 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: killing process wasRe: in place file splitter Message-ID: <20021113162607.GC1015@potpal> References: <001901c28a99$ee2c3860$e11917cf@SD43.bc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001901c28a99$ee2c3860$e11917cf@SD43.bc.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: Kenny Hitt Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi. When my memory filled up, the Kernel didn't just pick a process at random. It started killing the processes that were eating up the memory. Kenny On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 02:22:03PM -0800, Tyler Spivey wrote: > well, i guess you'd have to have enough memory to hold the whole file. > that doesn't matter though, since the worst that can happen is that the > kernel will kill any old process when the ram and swap fill up. > i've had no swap, and my ram got filled and it killed anything - it picks a > number at random and kills it. > not very useful, just extreamly annoying - it should kill the process that > is eating up all the ram. > but now that we can add huge ammounts of swap space, this isn't a big issue > anymore. > just dd to a file with input from /dev/zero, run swapon, and if the file > gets filled reboot so the swapspace > isn't used, and trash it. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >