From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 17:05:11 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler In-Reply-To: <39E21CCB.61AC1EBE@kalifornia.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: david+validemail@kalifornia.com Cc: mingo@elte.hu, Andrea Arcangeli , Byron Stanoszek , Linus Torvalds , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, David Ford wrote: > Then spam the console loudly with printk, but don't destroy the > whole machine. Init should only get killed if it REALLY is > taking a lot of memory. On a 4 or 8meg machine tho, the > probability of init getting killed is simply too high for > comfort. I have never ever seen init start consuming memory > like this so I'd rather get spammed on the console a LOT then > have my entire machine instantly go dead. Please TEST THIS before spreading Wild Rumours(tm) On 2.2 a /random/ process gets killed when the system gets tight, so you'll see init killed on (pre-kludge) 2.2 kernels, but I don't believe you'll see this with 2.4... regards, 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/