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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:35:22 +0200
From: Guest section DW <dwguest@win.tue.nl>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init
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On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 02:57:27AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Guest section DW wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:56:23AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> > 
> > > > > Feel free to write better-working code.
> > > > 
> > > > I don't get paid for it and I'm not idling through my days...
> > > 
> > >   <similar response from Andries>
> > 
> > No lies please.
> 
> You mean that you ARE willing to implement what you've been
> arguing for?

There had not been any such response by me -
thus you should not ascribe to me such a response.

Concerning overcommit: people tell me that Eduardo Horvath
in his patch submitted to l-k on 2000-03-31 already solved
the problem (entirely or to a large extent).

: This patch will prevent the linux kernel from allowing VM overcommit.

I have not yet read the code.

Andries
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