From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jordi Polo Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 21:16:21 +0100 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01032321162101.00471@mioooldpc> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "James A. Sutherland" Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > What on earth did you expect to happen when the process exceeded the > machine's capabilities? Using more than all the resources fails. There > isn't an alternative. I'll be burnt in fire if i say this but anyway ..... we need the window's system , a dinamic grownable swap . And if we have no HD then oom kill (letting the administrator what processes never be killed by it). -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/