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SubjectRe: OOM killer *WORKS* for a change!
>I just ran netscape which for some reason or another went totally
>whacky and gobbled RAM. It has done this before and made the box
>totally unuseable in 2.2.17-2.2.19 befor the kernel killed 90% of
>my running apps before getting the right one. This time, it
>OOM'd and killed Netscape and I got control back instantly. This
>is with 2.4.2. I hope this is a good sign!

Maybe, but 2.4.2 and 2.4.3 are still using the "old" killer algorithms
which can behave erratically. I haven't looked at 2.2.x OOM killers at
all, so I don't know how they compare. At some point in the near future, I
want to separate my patches out so they can receive individual attention
and hopefully get applied.

BTW, on this subject, if anyone sent me a mail which I haven't replied to,
I probably never got it due to e-mail problems with my ISP. If it's still
relevant, please resend.

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