Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Oct 1998 23:55:53 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Out Of Memory in v. 2.1 |
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On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Kurt Fitzner wrote:
>I mean, for heaven's sake... when the pentium f00f bug was announce, everyone >gasped and said "Oh no, now any user on my system can lock up my machine and >I can't do anyhting about it". Yet, the memory allocation scheme in Linux is >so poorly designed, that any user can lock up a machine, and there is nothing >you can do about it. No one is jumping to fix that problem, so why bother >with the Pentium f00f bug?
Please try my patch I posted some hours ago and let me know if you are able to deadlock 2.1.123+my oom patch.
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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