From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 17:06:48 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler In-Reply-To: <20001009214214.G19583@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 04:07:32PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > No. It's only needed if your OOM algorithm is so crappy that > > it might end up killing init by mistake. > > The algorithm you posted on the list in this thread will kill > init if on 4Mbyte machine without swap init is large 3 Mbytes > and you execute a task that grows over 1M. This sounds suspiciously like the description of a DEAD system ;) (in which case you simply don't care if init is being killed or not) 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/