Re: [patch] my latest oom stuff

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Wed, 4 Nov 1998 06:28:43 +0100 (CET)


On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> After fixing that in mm/memory.c and mm/filemap.c, the problem seems
> to be properly fixed.

Well, I guess that only leaves the question what
we should do to clean up an OOM situation -- and
if we want a rigorous solution to the problem in
2.2 or if we want to continue deadlocking or killing
random stuff (might be the X server).

But I guess that decision is up to you...

cheers,

Rik -- typing slowly because my kbd is dvorak since sun 19:40...
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