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SubjectRe: Ideas for the oom problem
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Doug Ledford wrote:

> I've been using our internal tree for my testing, and I'm reluctant to
> let my experiences there cause me to draw conclusions about other
> trees. So, will you please tell me which version of the kernel you
> think has a vm that only triggers the oom killer in emergency
> situations so I can test it here to see if you are right?

Detecting WHEN we're OOM is quite unrelated from chosing WHAT
to do when we're OOM.

There is currently no kernel that I'm aware of which does the
OOM kill at the "exact right" moment.

regards,

Rik
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