From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <20010323122815.A6428@win.tue.nl> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:28:15 +0100 From: Guest section DW Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init References: <20010323015358Z129164-406+3041@vger.kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Rik van Riel on Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 04:04:09AM -0300 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel , Michael Peddemors Cc: Stephen Clouse , Patrick O'Rourke , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 04:04:09AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 22 Mar 2001, Michael Peddemors wrote: > > > Here, Here.. killing qmail on a server who's sole task is running mail > > doesn't seem to make much sense either.. > > I won't defend the current OOM killing code. > > Instead, I'm asking everybody who's unhappy with the > current code to come up with something better. To a murderer: "Why did you kill that old lady?" Reply: "I won't defend that deed, but who else should I have killed?" Andries - getting more and more unhappy with OOM Mar 23 11:48:49 mette kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2019 (emacs). Mar 23 11:48:49 mette kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 1407 (emacs). Mar 23 11:48:50 mette kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 1495 (emacs). Mar 23 11:48:50 mette kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2800 (rpm). [yes, that was rpm growing too large, taking a few emacs sessions] [2.4.2] -- 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/