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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:28:15 +0100
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To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
        Michael Peddemors <michael@linuxmagic.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init
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On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 04:04:09AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 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.

To a murderer: "Why did you kill that old lady?"
Reply: "I won't defend that deed, but who else should I have killed?"

Andries - getting more and more unhappy with OOM

Mar 23 11:48:49 mette kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2019 (emacs).
Mar 23 11:48:49 mette kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 1407 (emacs).
Mar 23 11:48:50 mette kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 1495 (emacs).
Mar 23 11:48:50 mette kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2800 (rpm).

[yes, that was rpm growing too large, taking a few emacs sessions]
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