OOM killer *WORKS* for a change!

From: Mike A. Harris (mharris@opensourceadvocate.org)
Date: Fri Apr 13 2001 - 19:34:41 EDT

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    I just ran netscape which for some reason or another went totally
    whacky and gobbled RAM. It has done this before and made the box
    totally unuseable in 2.2.17-2.2.19 befor the kernel killed 90% of
    my running apps before getting the right one. This time, it
    OOM'd and killed Netscape and I got control back instantly. This
    is with 2.4.2. I hope this is a good sign!

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