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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
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        Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@f-secure.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: Looking for better VM
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Date: 08 Nov 2000 18:03:09 +0100
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Hi Mikulas,

On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> BTW. Why does your OOM killer in 2.4 try to kill process that mmaped
> most memory? mmap is hamrless. mmap on files can't eat memory and
> swap.

Be careful: They may have shm segments mmaped!

Greetings
		Christoph

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