On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 02:47:20PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > But I have a valid point: can we do something better than posting a SIGKILL > to the largest process?
I think AIX sends all running processes a magic signal (SIGDANGER?) which indicates that the system is short of resources, and if things don't improve real soon then it sends a SIGKILL. Not that I'd suggest that AIX does things the right way... David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message