Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:08:24 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Martin =?ISO-8859-1?B?TU9LUkVKX18=?= 
	<mmokrejs@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz>
Cc: piggin@cyberone.com.au, chris@tebibyte.org, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com,
       andrea@novell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
       riel@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix spurious OOM kills
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Martin MOKREJ__ <mmokrejs@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz> wrote:
>
>   Anyway, plain 2.6.7 kills only the application asking for
>  so much memory and logs via syslog:
>  Out of Memory: Killed process 58888 (RNAsubopt)
> 
>    It's a lot better compared to what we have in 2.6.10-rc2,
>  from my user's view.

We haven't made any changes to the oom-killer algorithm since July 2003. 
Weird.

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