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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 19:21:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Tom Diehl <tdiehl@pil.net>
To: Tim Wright <timw@splhi.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init
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On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Tim Wright wrote:

> Netscape 4 has some very nasty habits like suddenly consuming ~80MB of memory.
> Disabling java support seems to eradicate most occurences of this particularly
> obnoxious behaviour. Under these circumstances, the OOM killer is doing exactly
> the right thing i.e. killing a runaway app.

Thanks for the info. I sus[ected as much but I was not sure.

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......Tom	ATA100 is another testimony to the fact that pigs can be
tdiehl@pil.net	made to fly given sufficient thrust (to borrow an RFC)
		Alan Cox lkml 11 Jan 01

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