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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:58:36 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Remco Post wrote:

> Linux does swap (I guess), swapping is a very extreem measure, "I need
> memory now, and the paging algorithm does not work any more", this is
> quite rare, but a few runaway netscape processes can easily cause
> this....

Guess again.  Linux doesn't have load control implemented ...

Rik
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