From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:24:14 -0600 From: Philipp Rumpf Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init Message-ID: <20010322132414.A23177@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com> References: <3AB9313C.1020909@missioncriticallinux.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Rik van Riel on Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 08:48:54PM -0300 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Patrick O'Rourke , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 08:48:54PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Patrick O'Rourke wrote: > > > Since the system will panic if the init process is chosen by > > the OOM killer, the following patch prevents select_bad_process() > > from picking init. > > One question ... has the OOM killer ever selected init on > anybody's system ? Yes, I managed to reproduce this a while ago. (init was the only process around though). We don't ever kill init, fwiw; we panic(), which is the right thing to do if init can't keep running. > I think that the scoring algorithm should make sure that > we never pick init, unless the system is screwed so badly > that init is broken or the only process left ;) I can't think of a situation where the OOM killer does the wrong thing. -- 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/