Re: Andrea VM changes

[Alan Cox]

On Sul, 2003-08-31 at 00:19, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> I've an algorithm that will work, and that will provide very good
> guarantees to kill the "best" task to make the machine usable again,
> with the needed protection against the security DoSes, but it's in
> no-way similar to the current oom killer.

And -ac has trivial code so you can avoid OOM killing every happening,
which is pretty much essential for big servers. Perhaps merging that
as well would be a good idea.

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