From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3ABC5220.37C41DCE@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 02:52:00 -0500 From: Doug Ledford MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "James A. Sutherland" Cc: Guest section DW , Rik van Riel , Patrick O'Rourke , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: "James A. Sutherland" wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Guest section DW wrote: > > (I think 2.4.0.) > > > > Clearly, Linux cannot be reliable if any process can be killed > > at any moment. > > What on earth did you expect to happen when the process exceeded the > machine's capabilities? Using more than all the resources fails. There > isn't an alternative. You might be successful in convincing myself or Andries of this as soon as the oom killer only kills things when the system is really out of memory. Right now, it's not really an oom killer, it's more like an "I'm Too Lazy To Free Up Some More Pages So Now You Die" (ITLTFUSMPSNYD) killer. -- Doug Ledford http://people.redhat.com/dledford Please check my web site for aic7xxx updates/answers before e-mailing me about problems -- 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/