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DateTue, 16 Jun 1998 01:25:02 +0200 (CEST)
FromRik van Riel <>
SubjectRe: Swap signature eaten by 2.1.105
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> >Well, besides this AOL block, there's some actual code
> What does it mean AOL ;-)?

??? AOL ... remember seeing it on the box ... ???  :-)

> >on my homepage. This code chooses which process to kill.
> Does we really need a kernel thread to kill a process when it goes out of
> memory? 

No we don't. It's not in a thread at all, it's just extra
code that runs in the context of kswapd...

Rik.
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