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From: James A. Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: suspend processes at load (was Re: a simple OOM ...) 
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 20:10:50 +0100
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On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 13:53:48 -0500, you wrote:

>--On Thursday, April 19, 2001 19:47:12 +0100 "James A. Sutherland" 
><jas88@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Well, it was my proposal when I first said it :-)
>
>Oops.  My apologies.  I'd lost track of whose idea it was originally :)

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)


James.
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