Comment 2 for bug 182960

Not sure if this is being worked on, but I think this is a VERY important issue to fix!

Every once in a while, something I run has a massive memory leak (GB/s), which brings down the entire system, requiring a hard reboot.

this seems like FAR from ideal behavior!

while there are valid reasons for a program to use more than the available physical memory in the system, at least in my experience, if a program is trying to use more than the 2gigs of memory I have, its due to a bug, and I'd rather the process be killed, than the entire system!

Even better would be to prompt the user for whether they want to allow the process to continue...
ie: if a process is using >80-90% of physical memory, force it to go to sleep, and prompt the user for them to decide wether to allow the process to proceed.

Not sure how the prompt would work, other than a GUI popup, or shell message, both of which have their flaws though...

thanks!