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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 04:04:09 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Michael Peddemors <michael@linuxmagic.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init
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On 22 Mar 2001, Michael Peddemors wrote:

> Here, Here.. killing qmail on a server who's sole task is running mail
> doesn't seem to make much sense either..

I won't defend the current OOM killing code.

Instead, I'm asking everybody who's unhappy with the
current code to come up with something better.

Rik
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