Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

[Jonathan Morton]

>It seems bizarre that a 4GB machine with a working set _far_ lower than that
>should be dying from OOM and swapping itself to death, but that's life in 2.4
>land.

I posted a fix for the OOM problem long ago, and it didn't get integrated
(even after I sent Alan a separated-out version from the larger patch it
was embedded in).  I'm going to re-introduce it soon, and hope that it gets
a better hearing this time.

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