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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 11:36:59 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On 5 Mar 2001, Christoph Rohland wrote:

> > We've also seen (anecdotal evidence here) cases where a kernel
> > panics, which we believe may have to do with having 0 < swap < 2x
> > RAM.  We're investigating further.
> 
> That would be a kernel bug which should be fixed. The kernel should
> handle oom/oos.

There was a bug which made the OOM-killer not work for some
workloads. It should be fixed in the latest -ac kernels...

If in doubt, please test ;)

regards,

Rik
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