From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 20:42:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Ingo Molnar Reply-To: mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler In-Reply-To: <20001009202844.A19583@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: Byron Stanoszek , Rik van Riel , Linus Torvalds , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 04:19:55PM -0400, Byron Stanoszek wrote: > > In the OOM killer, shouldn't there be a check for PID 1 just to enforce that > > Init can't be killed in 2.2.x latest, the same bugfix should be forward > ported to 2.4.x. I believe we should not special-case init in this case. If the OOM would kill init then we *want* to know about it ASAP, because it's either a bug in the OOM code or a memory leak in init. Both things are very bad, and ignoring the kill would just preserve those bugs artificially. Ingo -- 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/