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Subject: Re: [9fans] Swap considered harmful (Sorry)
From: "Sascha Retzki" <sretzki@gmx.de>
Date: Mon,  7 Aug 2006 20:13:07 +0200
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> 
> 
> BUGS
>        By default, Linux follows an  optimistic  memory  allocation
> strategy.
>        This  means  that  when malloc() returns non-NULL there is no
> guarantee
>        that the memory really is available. 


Haha

Nice!

Yeah, I once saw a linux-kernel kill random(!) processes because there was no memory - there seems to have been some memory leak, it started right in the boot-processes to kill all services (sshd, apache, mysql, etc), killed the vt-emulators (those login:-processes on alt+Fn), init, everything, then paniced because there was no init anymore. It was great cinema.