Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Mar 2001 02:11:56 +0100 (MET) | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init |
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> It was actually worse than that. Grab your copy of "Lions", and check lines > 4375-4377 in function xswap(). A failure to allocate space in the swapmap > caused a panic. Same problem in xalloc().
[no Lions nearby; somewhere I still have the printout but am too lazy to search; I also have the tape but nothing to read it with]
yes, you may well be right if you say that my picture of the distant past is too rosy - maybe I forgot all this trouble still - yesterday I lost three edit sessions - I do not recall any such occurrence in the 25 years before
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