On Apr 11, 2005, at 12:01 PM, Steven Hartland wrote:

of swap? Which leads to the question would it not be more sensible to
kill off the largest process first as its more than likely that it is responsible
for the problem?



so when this largest process is your production database server for your e-commerce site, what will you change your recommendation to be?


basically, there is no "right" choice of process to kill. a machine that is out of resources is just a bad situation, and the right thing is to try to avoid getting there with careful monitoring and planning.

Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
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