OOM killer *WORKS* for a change!

Mike A. Harris (mharris@opensourceadvocate.org)
Fri, 13 Apr 2001 19:34:41 -0400 (EDT)

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!

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Mike A. Harris - Linux advocate - Free Software advocate
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