From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3ABE0F32.5255DF30@evision-ventures.com> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 17:30:58 +0200 From: Martin Dalecki 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: Alan Cox Cc: "James A. Sutherland" , Guest section DW , Rik van Riel , Patrick O'Rourke , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Alan Cox wrote: > > > That depends what you mean by "must not". If it's your missile guidance > > system, aircraft autopilot or life support system, the system must not run > > out of memory in the first place. If the system breaks down badly, killing > > init and thus panicking (hence rebooting, if the system is set up that > > way) seems the best approach. > > Ultra reliable systems dont contain memory allocators. There are good reasons > for this but the design trade offs are rather hard to make in a real world > environment I esp. they run on CPU's without a stack or what? -- 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/