Re: telnetd process getting terminated

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, koole wrote:

The normal/general issue with Solaris box,when the load increases you
will find u r telnet process getting terminated.
^^^
(ITYM "your")

Nonsense. It is only under very rare circumstances that the kernel
will kill a process (only when it tries to grow its stack when there's
no VM left). The Solaris kernel doesn't kill processes just becuase
the load is high.

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