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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init
Mike Galbraith wrote:
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> On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Doug Ledford wrote:
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> [snip list of naughty behavior]
>
> > What was that you were saying about "should *never* happen"? Oh, and let's
> Get off your lazy butts and do something about it. Don't work on the
> oom-killer though.. that's only a symptom. Work on the problem instead.

You are absolutely right about the fact that there are serious
memmory balancing problems out there as well. But ther oom_killer.c
needs to be changed as well - becouse in it's current state it's
buggy as hell as well. You propably know that you earn stability
in SW systems by making them survive the borderline conditions...
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