From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James A. Sutherland Subject: Re: suspend processes at load (was Re: a simple OOM ...) Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 07:10:45 +0100 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Dave McCracken , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/