Re: [PATCH 2.4.21-rc4] Fix oom killer braindamage

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:05:45PM +0200, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> Hi Marcelo,
> attached patch fixes the oom killer braindamage where it tries to kill 
> processes again and again and again w/o any ending or successfull killing of 
> the selected processes in an OOM case.
> The attached, very simple but effective, patch fixes it.
> All the kudos go to Rik van Riel.
> Patch tested and works, and also for a long time in my tree (and maybe also 
> others?!)
> This issue is out there for several years.
> Please consider it for 2.4.21-rc5, thanks.
> ciao, Marc

Also in 2.5.x for some time.

-- wli