OOM-killer prevention for master kdeinit process

Kevin Krammer kevin.krammer at gmx.at
Thu Aug 3 13:10:41 BST 2006


On Thursday 03 August 2006 13:51, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On Thursday 03 August 2006 13:11, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 August 2006 11:52, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > > set to normal. Also, some unwanted launching of something from kdeinit
> > > with the adjustment inherited (even though I don't quite see how that
> > > could happen in practice) would just at worst result in a process that
> > > wouldn't get killed by the OOM-killer in the unlikely case it
> > > misbehaves, causing
> >
> > kded misbehaving is quite common, not due to its own fault but due to
> > faulty modules. Same situation for kicker and memory leaking applets
>
>  "unwanted launching" - kdeinit launches kded very much on purpose and can
> drop the adjustment after the fork before the child becomes kded.

Oh, I missed that part, sorry :)

Cheers,
Kevin

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Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
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