>I mean, for heaven's sake... when the pentium f00f bug was announce, everyone
>gasped and said "Oh no, now any user on my system can lock up my machine and
>I can't do anyhting about it". Yet, the memory allocation scheme in Linux is
>so poorly designed, that any user can lock up a machine, and there is nothing
>you can do about it. No one is jumping to fix that problem, so why bother
>with the Pentium f00f bug?
Please try my patch I posted some hours ago and let me know if you are
able to deadlock 2.1.123+my oom patch.
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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