Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler

From: Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Date: Mon Oct 09 2000 - 15:57:31 EST

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On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> I disagree - if we start adding these kinds of heuristics to it, it
> wil just be a way for people to try to confuse the OOM code. Imagine
> some bad guy that does 15 fork()'s and then tries to OOM...

yep.

Ingo

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