Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 12 Oct 2000 01:58:49 +1100 | From | Matthew Hawkins <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] OOM killer API (was: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler) |
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On 2000-10-11 10:33:39 -0400, Bruce A. Locke wrote: > > Your making the deadly assumption that all applications behave themselves > exactly the same all the time. Oops... netscape decided to freak out and > take up all your memory... guess its the admins fault.
Yep, for not setting appropriate resource limits.
man 2 setrlimit
Of course, if its a kernel bug that causes it I think you're SOL ;)
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