Hi,

> It's also worth noting that I added a printf to the PTP steal path on
> the i386mp branch, and I've never actually seen that printf happen on
> my MP test machine, even under relatively heavy load; it's much more
> likely that processes get SIGKILLed from lack of swap..

While I wouldn't argue about dropping the PTP stealing code here, isn't
this latter just a sign of you configuring your swap space too small?
I mean, these two things aren't neccessarily related...

Ciao,
Wolfgang
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