Re: Locking processes against being killed when low on memory

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:14:48PM +0000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
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> I'll try, but with no message and no dump that isn't easy...

With no message and no dump, are you _certain_ the X server didn't
just run out of memory and die ungracefully, leaving the system in a
hopeless state due to its direct frobbing of memory and device registers?

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  Thor Lancelot Simon                                        
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