Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 16:12:07 -0300 (BRT)
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
To: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4.21-rc4] Fix oom killer braindamage
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On Tue, 27 May 2003, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:

> Hi Marcelo,
>
> attached patch fixes the oom killer braindamage where it tries to kill
> processes again and again and again w/o any ending or successfull killing of
> the selected processes in an OOM case.
>
> The attached, very simple but effective, patch fixes it.
>
> All the kudos go to Rik van Riel.
>
> Patch tested and works, and also for a long time in my tree (and maybe also
> others?!)
>
> This issue is out there for several years.
>
> Please consider it for 2.4.21-rc5, thanks.

Not suitable for -rc. Btw, -rc5 is already at bkbits.net.
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