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To: james <jdickens@ameritech.net>
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Subject: Re: Ideas for the oom problem 
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> a. don't kill any task with a uid < 100 
>     
> b. if uid between 100 to 500 or CAP-SYS equivalent enabled 
> 	set it too a lower priority, so if it is at fault it will happen slower 		   
>             giving more time before the system collapses

Deciding what not to kill based on who started it seems like a bad idea. Root 
can start netscape just as easily as any user, but if the choice of processes 
to kill is root's netscape or a user's experimental database, I'd want the 
netscape to go away.



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