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From: "Michel Wilson" <michel@procyon14.yi.org>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH] OOM handling
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:03:23 +0200
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> relative ages.  The major flaw in my code is that a sufficiently
> long-lived
> process becomes virtually immortal, even if it happens to spring a serious
> leak after this time - the flaw in yours is that system processes

I think this could easily be fixed if you'd 'chop off' the runtime at a
certain point:

if(runtime > something_big)
	runtime = something_big;

This would of course need some tuning. The only thing i don't like about
this is that it's a kind of 'magical value', but i suppose it's not a very
good idea to make this configurable, right?

Michel Wilson.

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