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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:07:48 -0200 (BRDT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Daniel Stone <daniel@kabuki.eyep.net>
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Subject: Re: Rik's bad process killer - how to kill _IT_?
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On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Daniel Stone wrote:

> I've been having a bit of a problem with Rik's new VM, in particular the bad
> process-killer. Basically put, I have a reasonably underpowered system
> (P166) running Helix GNOME & Sawfish, and half the time when I load my Eterm
> (admittedly, transparent, but it looks cool, damnit!), or Netscape (or
> both!) it seems to be Rik's VM killer slaying them. No error message is
> logged anywhere, not even if I start 'em from the console.

> Daniel Stone
> Linux Kernel Developer
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If you were, you'd have written something that makes sense.

1. my OOM killer *always* spits out a message when it kills
   something
2. you haven't written what kernel version you're using;
   judging from your lack of error messages you're running
   2.2 (which has the nasty habit of killing processes under
   heavy load ... I have a patch out which fixes that)

regards,

Rik
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