On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> 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.
I ported the 2.4 OOM killer about half year ago to 2.2, available for
2.2.19 kernel at
http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/reserved_root_memory.html
Note, since it's activated in page fault handler that is architecture
dependent, the current patch works only on x86 (the only one I could
test). If one is interested in other archs, let me know.
Szaka
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