Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:21:26 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: VM problems with 2.2.17pre19 |
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On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Richard Guenther wrote:
> With bad behaving apps (like acroread4 which leaks memory like > hell) using all of the available swap space 2.2.17pre19 (and > previous) get into never ending swap-fights which one cannot > interrupt because neither mouse nor keyboard are responding > anymore (well, sysrq-k works but leaves the machine blind). > > I suspect acceptable behaviour would be to at least try to > kill some random (ok, not that flamewar again, please...)
Alan, my patch is still available and should plug right into the latest 2.2 kernel ....
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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