From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from burns.conectiva (burns.conectiva [10.0.0.4]) by postfix.conectiva.com.br (Postfix) with SMTP id 7ED1D16FAD for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:53:15 -0300 (EST) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:48:54 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init In-Reply-To: <3AB9313C.1020909@missioncriticallinux.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Patrick O'Rourke Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Patrick O'Rourke wrote: > Since the system will panic if the init process is chosen by > the OOM killer, the following patch prevents select_bad_process() > from picking init. One question ... has the OOM killer ever selected init on anybody's system ? I think that the scoring algorithm should make sure that we never pick init, unless the system is screwed so badly that init is broken or the only process left ;) Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com.br/ -- 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/