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SubjectRe: Overcomittable memory
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Jon Milton wrote:

>I think what's needed is a "kill on OOM" daemon that's more
>programmable. Default on, but with facillity to disable.
>Even better, make certain users untouchable, so that apps
>which really are mission critical carry on running, possible
>at the expense of the dross.

I'm working on a daemon that will have this functionality, and more... but
I still think it should work in conjunction with a smarter kernel OOM
killer.

Dave

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