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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Jeff Roberson and Matt Dillon wrote:
[ ... modifying the system to back off from too high a
      memory pressure ... ]

If you guys do this, please make sure it can be turned off.

The3re are a lot of bugs in the current kernel that will end
up masked by doing something like this, and I'd prefer that
they bite me, rather than hang around for the next 6+ years,
hidden.

-- Terry