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Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 14:57:34 -0200 (BRDT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: hugang <linuxbest@sina.com>
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On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, hugang wrote:

> Hello all:
> 	
> old    ---->     points = p->mm->total_vm;
>        
> change to --->   points = p->pid;

Ummm, what exactly do you want to achieve with this?

> before change it ,kernel will kill some pid, to change it kernel
> will kill hello(bash).

Before the change, the kernel will try to kill a BIG process
(the obvious suspect for a memory leak). After the change,
the kernel will kill an almost random process ...

regards,

Rik
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