On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Oscar wrote: On my MDK 8.0 the kernel 2.4.3 handles this problem. I wrote a small C-program that eats memory in a forever-loop. After 2 seconds the box was nearly unusable,but after one minute of no reaction the process was terminated and everything worked fine except to the memory parts that needed to be swapped in again. > Hi all, > Sometimes, the memory used by a program, Netscape for example, begins to > grow, swapping to disk and occuping all memory available, until the computer > hangs. > How can I avoid this automatically? there are quotas for memory? > Can I automatically detect when a programa fails and begins to eat memory > like a crazy? > Thanks > Salu2, > �scar. > -- > Usuario de Linux Registrado #227443 > >
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