On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Michel Wilson wrote:
> > relative ages. The major flaw in my code is that a sufficiently
> > long-lived
> > process becomes virtually immortal, even if it happens to spring a serious
> > leak after this time - the flaw in yours is that system processes
>
> I think this could easily be fixed if you'd 'chop off' the runtime at a
> certain point:
>
> if(runtime > something_big)
> runtime = something_big;
>
> This would of course need some tuning. The only thing i don't
> like about this is that it's a kind of 'magical value',
This is the reason I used the sqrt approximation in my
OOM killer ;)
Rik
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