Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: coreutils
Currently in Hardy it seems that if a process allocates memory
continually it will eventually bring the system to a crawl requiring a
reboot.
As a desktop system there needs to be a way for Ubuntu to make the user
experience better when things like this go wrong. There are many
possible solutions:
- simple sane default ulimit (possibly with some log or automated bug reporting
when triggered)
- daemon that watches for processes that are out of control and kills them
automatically.
- way to bring up a gui (that can be guaranteed to work even if the memory is
paging like crazy) to kill the run-away process.
It's easy to see that this problem needs to be addressed by looking at
the many bug reports on launchpad that mention a run away process or
memory leak.
** Affects: coreutils (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Deal with runaway processes that keep allocating memory gracefully
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/237969
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