From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:29:02 -0600 From: Philipp Rumpf Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init Message-ID: <20010322132902.B23177@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Eric W. Biederman on Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:14:41AM -0700 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Rik van Riel , Patrick O'Rourke , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:14:41AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Rik van Riel writes: > Is there ever a case where killing init is the right thing to do? There are cases where panic() is the right thing to do. Broken init is such a case. > My impression is that if init is selected the whole machine dies. > If you can kill init and still have a machine that mostly works, you can't. > Guaranteeing not to select init can buy you piece of mind because > init if properly setup can put the machine back together again, while > not special casing init means something weird might happen and init > would be selected. If we're in a situation where long-running processes with relatively small VM are killed the box is very unlikely to be usable anyway. -- 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/