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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 18:51:03 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@f-secure.com>
To: "Dr. Michael Weller" <eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de>
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Subject: Re: OOM killer???
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On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Dr. Michael Weller wrote:

> Applications forking and then dirtying their shared data pages
> madly? OOps.. nothing.. Why? It cannot be done!

In eager mode Solaris, Tru64, Irix, non-overcommit patch for Linux by
Eduardo Horvath from last year can do (you get ENOMEM at fork).

	Szaka

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