>Motivation. Today one of my servers had to be 'hard'-rebooted due to
>lack of memory. One user-space program ate all available memory -
>resulting in a lot of 'Unable to load interpreter' and the like. Even
>root couldn't get a login at the console.
Note that kernels < pre-2.1.127-6 had no 1 chance to survive when the RAM
and the swap was used at all. I suggest you to try pre-2.1.127-7 (except
if you have to print because there' s a hanging bug in lp) and to try to
crash the machine again.
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