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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 16:46:02 -0200 (BRST)
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
To: Abraham vd Merwe <abraham@2d3d.co.za>
Cc: Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.16 & OOM killer screw up
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On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Abraham vd Merwe wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> If I leave my machine on for a day or two without doing anything on it (e.g.
> my machine at work over a weekend) and I come back then 1) all my memory is
> used for buffers/caches and when I try running application, the OOM killer
> kicks in, tries to allocate swap space (which I don't have) and kills
> whatever I try start (that's with 300M+ memory in buffers/caches).

Abraham, 

I'll take a look at this issue as soon as pre8 is released. 

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