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From: "Heusden, Folkert van" <f.v.heusden@ftr.nl>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:28:50 +0100
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To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>, Tom Kondilis <tomk@plaza.ds.adp.com>
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> That's not the OOM killer however, but init dying because it
> couldn't get the memory it needed to satisfy a page fault or
> somesuch...

Ehrm, I would like to re-state that it still would be nice if
some mechanism got introduced which enables one to set certain
processes to "cannot be killed".
For example: I would hate it it the UPS monitoring daemon got
killed for obvious reasons :o)
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