OOM-killer prevention for master kdeinit process

[Lubos Lunak]

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.

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