Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

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On 22 Mar 2001, Michael Peddemors wrote:

> Here, Here.. killing qmail on a server who's sole task is running mail
> doesn't seem to make much sense either..

I won't defend the current OOM killing code.

Instead, I'm asking everybody who's unhappy with the
current code to come up with something better.

Rik

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