2.4.16 & OOM killer screw up

[Abraham vd Merwe]

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Hi!

If I leave my machine on for a day or two without doing anything on it (e.g.
my machine at work over a weekend) and I come back then 1) all my memory is
used for buffers/caches and when I try running application, the OOM killer
kicks in, tries to allocate swap space (which I don't have) and kills
whatever I try start (that's with 300M+ memory in buffers/caches).

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Regards
 Abraham

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
		-- Arthur R. Miller

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