From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 04:23:23 +0100 From: Philipp Rumpf Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler Message-ID: <20001010042323.B3386@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 05:18:12PM -0300 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , Andrea Arcangeli , Byron Stanoszek , Linus Torvalds , MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > (but I'd be curious if somebody actually manages to > trick the OOM killer into killing init ... please > test a bit more to see if this really happens ;)) In a non-real-world situation, yes. (mem=3500k, many drivers, init=/bin/bash, tried to enter a command). Since the process in question (bash) ignores SIGTERM, I actually got a hard hang. We really should turn this into a panic() (panic means your elevator control system reboots and maybe misses the right floor. hard hang means you need to reboot manually). -- 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/