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SubjectRe: oom() _still_ killing init
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Urban Widmark wrote:
>
> >Does Rik's patch also spare the X server?
>
> I still have to look into Rik's patch, but I just checked that we
> don't have a bitflag in the task struct to account if the task is
> running in a privilegied level (we only raise the two bits in
> eflags in sys_iopl).

Even without the bitflag, my patch usually spares the X server
because it usually has been running for a relatively long time
in comparison to the, newer, CPU hog.

Rik -- Open Source: you deserve to be in control of your data.
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