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Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 01:02:23 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Abraham vd Merwe <abraham@2d3d.co.za>,
        Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.16 & OOM killer screw up
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:14:52AM +0200, 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).

I'd try 2.4.17pre4aa1.

Andrea
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