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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:10:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Subject: Re: pre5 VM livelock
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On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Question: did you have some big process that you tried to test the VM
> > with? Did you expect the oom killer to kill it?
>
> AFAICT, yes.  I am going to re-run again to make sure (both with pre5
> and also pre5aa1).

Ok. The oom-killer is something I didn't even bother worrying about in the
pre-series, I'll give that another look.

		Linus

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