> I hope I don't sound surprised, but perhaps there's some way for the > kernel to trigger an abort() rather than bring the entire system to a > standstill?
If you don't enable swapping, then the kernel will kill the biggest process when it runs out of memory, and that will be this guy. If you do enable swapping, then it has to run out of swap space first, and that's going to take a while. Russ
