From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 16:07:32 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler In-Reply-To: <20001009210503.C19583@athlon.random> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Ingo Molnar , Byron Stanoszek , Linus Torvalds , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 08:42:26PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > ignoring the kill would just preserve those bugs artificially. > > If the oom killer kills a thing like init by mistake That only happens in the "random" OOM killer 2.2 has ... > So you have two choices: > > o math proof that the current algorithm without the magic can't end > killing init (and I should be able to proof the other way around > instead) > > o have a magic check for init > > So the magic is _strictly_ necessary at the moment. No. It's only needed if your OOM algorithm is so crappy that it might end up killing init by mistake. Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000 http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/ -- 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/