Re: suspend processes at load (was Re: a simple OOM ...)

[James A. Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk>]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 11:58:04 -0300 (BRST), you wrote:

>On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, James A.Sutherland wrote:
>
>> No problem - the OOM killer itself had similar origins, in fact! (Back
>> in the heat of the "Avoiding OOM on overcommit" flamewar, I suggested
>> the original concept, which evolved into the OOM killer we have now)
>
>What year was that ?  ;)

The second year of the flamewar, I think :) Probably early last year
or sometime in '99 - I don't have the diskspace to keep lkml stuff
that long...

It was a week or two before you said you were working on the OOM
killer, anyway.


James.
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