Subject: Re: easy ways to crash your NetBSD system
To: Darren Reed <darrenr@vitruvius.arbld.unimelb.edu.au>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@teeri.jmp.fi>
List: current-users
Date: 04/07/1996 11:42:48
> I'm sure I've seen this behaviour with swap space and processes being
> killed in commercial Unixes...

Wouldn't it be a good idea to kill the most recently started, largest
user processes in case the system runs out of swap?  This would protect
the system processes like init and inetd.

  -jm