From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 20:28:44 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler Message-ID: <20001009202844.A19583@athlon.random> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from gandalf@winds.org on Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 04:19:55PM -0400 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Byron Stanoszek Cc: Rik van Riel , Linus Torvalds , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 04:19:55PM -0400, Byron Stanoszek wrote: > In the OOM killer, shouldn't there be a check for PID 1 just to enforce that Init can't be killed in 2.2.x latest, the same bugfix should be forward ported to 2.4.x. > Can you give me your rationale for selecting 'nice' processes as being badder? Also the cpu time and start time of a process are meaningless. Simulations runs for weeks before they run the machine out of memory. Andrea -- 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/