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Subject: Re: Swap / thrashing / fatal crash
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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:43:42 +0000 (GMT)
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> I seem to recall that under k2.2.xx this sort of thing would end up with 
> something getting a signal -KILL rather than thrashing.

It should do - you are running a very old 2.4 kernel though and one with
known to be fairly poor vm behaviour

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