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On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 12:41:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> It'd be nice if the second and subsequent passes of the oom
> killer were able to note that a kill was already outstanding,
> so they don't just kill the same process all the time.

-rmap uses a simple timeout for that.  And I've just send the
rmap oom_killer tweaks to Marcelo so they hopefully will appear
in mainline soon.

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