phil at rephil.org wrote: > > And to refer to Carl's post, there do exist OS's that will handle an > out-of-memory condition, but they aren't of the Unix family. VMS or > NSK, and maybe MPE will, I believe. Out of curiosity, what would be good ways to handle the problem? I know that the Linux kernel will kill processes in these sorts of conditions in an attempt to free up memory. I'm not sure how the kernel picks a process to kill. Now that I think about it, the kernel has probably killed my X server a few times, explaining why my system has occasionally appeared to be unresponsive at the console. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ How many of you believe / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ in telekinesis? Raise \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) my hand! [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011009/1f0824bc/attachment.pgp