> On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 22:22, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
<_snip_>
> > Well, if you can't fork a new process because that would push you into
> > overcommit, then you usually can't actually do anything useful on the
> > machine.
>
> Thats actually easy to deal with and on my list for modes 4 and 5 (2 and
> 3 with root granted a reserved fraction)
It seems to me that selectively limiting the number of processes in a
pgroup, or selectively killing large RSS programs in a large pgroup
(non-root) would be one way to identify the processes which were either
clone/fork looping, or have children begetting children. After than
perhaps killing or restricting from the high numerical uid down. That
might tend to spare system and/or well-behaved processes.
Comment?
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