From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:06:07 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler In-Reply-To: <20001010042941.C3386@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Philipp Rumpf Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Ingo Molnar , Byron Stanoszek , Linus Torvalds , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Philipp Rumpf wrote: > > > 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 ;) > > But wouldn't a watchdog daemon which doesn't allocate any memory > still get run ? Indeed, it would. It would also /prevent/ the system from automatically rebooting itself into a usable state ;) > > (in which case you simply don't care if init is being killed or not) > > You care about getting an automatic reboot. So you need to be sure the > watchdog daemon gets killed first or you panic() after some time. echo 30 > /proc/sys/kernel/panic 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/