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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, James Cleverdon wrote:

> We have some customers with some fairly beefy servers.  They can get the
> system into an unusable state that has been reported on lkml before.

> The two attached patches applied to 2.4.19 fix the problem on our test boxes.
>
> Are these patches still considered a good idea for 2.4?  Is there something
> better I should be using?

Yes, these patches are a good idea.  I'm curious why they
haven't been submitted to Marcelo yet ;)

Rik
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