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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom killer (Core)
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Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
>
> I believe the thing you're hiding with the callback, is some screwup in
>  the VM. It shouldn't fire oom 300 times in a row.

Well no ;)

Thomas, could you please put together a description of how to reproduce
this behaviour?