From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <20010323182105.C6487@win.tue.nl> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 18:21:05 +0100 From: Guest section DW Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init References: <20010323015358Z129164-406+3041@vger.kernel.org> <20010323122815.A6428@win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Eric W. Biederman on Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 07:50:25AM -0700 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Rik van Riel , Michael Peddemors , Stephen Clouse , Patrick O'Rourke , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 07:50:25AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > 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] > > Let me get this straight you don't have enough swap for your workload? > And you don't have per process limits on root by default? > > So you are complaining about the OOM killer? I should not react - your questions are phrased rhetorically. But yes, I am complaining because Linux by default is unreliable. I strongly prefer a system that is reliable by default, and I'll leave it to others to run it in an unreliable mode. Andries -- 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/