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From: David Newall <david@davidnewall.com>
To: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux machines dieing in swap storms
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:38:26 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47214C1A.6040303@davidnewall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1193325641.5776.21.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Richard Purdie wrote:
> I've got a problem I keep running into. My computers have buggy software
> which can sometimes run out of control.
>   

Ulimit them.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-26  2:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-25 15:20 Linux machines dieing in swap storms Richard Purdie
2007-10-25 16:13 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-25 18:28   ` Richard Purdie
2007-10-25 18:34 ` Rik van Riel
2007-10-25 19:55 ` Simon Arlott
2007-10-26  2:08 ` David Newall [this message]
2007-10-26 15:14 ` Lenar Lõhmus
     [not found] <9icP2-2hb-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <9ifML-6Xs-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-10-26  3:56   ` Bodo Eggert
2007-10-26  4:03     ` Rik van Riel

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