Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

> It was actually worse than that. Grab your copy of "Lions", and check lines
> 4375-4377 in function xswap(). A failure to allocate space in the swapmap
> caused a panic. Same problem in xalloc().

[no Lions nearby; somewhere I still have the printout but am
too lazy to search; I also have the tape but nothing to read it with]

yes, you may well be right if you say that my picture
of the distant past is too rosy - maybe I forgot all
this trouble
still - yesterday I lost three edit sessions -
I do not recall any such occurrence in the 25 years before