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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:52:50 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@f-secure.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] a simple OOM killer to save me from Netscape
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On 14 Apr 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Seriously you could do this in user-space with a 16KB or so mlocked
> binary.

You'd need to fix at least these as well, no new memory required to read
from /proc, no minutes latencies and obsolete values when reading /proc.
You're idea already failed in theory. I'd also suggest to study how
others handle the problem, there are a *lot* to learn ;)

	Szaka

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