From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 18:34:29 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Alan Cox , Andrea Arcangeli , Byron Stanoszek , Linus Torvalds , MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote: > On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > Would this complexity /really/ be worth it for the twice-yearly OOM > > situation? > > the only reason i suggested this was the init=/bin/bash, 4MB > RAM, no swap emergency-bootup case. We must not kill init in > that case - if the current code doesnt then great and none of > this is needed. I guess this requires some testing. If anybody can reproduce the bad effects without going /too/ much out of the way of a realistic scenario, the code needs to be fixed. If it turns out to be a non-issue in all scenarios, there's no need to make the code any more complex. 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/