Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

Tom Diehl
2001-03-24T00:22:17Z

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Tim Wright wrote:

> Netscape 4 has some very nasty habits like suddenly consuming ~80MB of memory.
> Disabling java support seems to eradicate most occurences of this particularly
> obnoxious behaviour. Under these circumstances, the OOM killer is doing exactly
> the right thing i.e. killing a runaway app.

Thanks for the info. I sus[ected as much but I was not sure.

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