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 9B20716F21 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:19:37 -0300 (EST) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:01:43 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init In-Reply-To: <20010322124727.A5115@win.tue.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Guest section DW Cc: Patrick O'Rourke , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Guest section DW wrote: > > One question ... has the OOM killer ever selected init on > > anybody's system ? > > Last week I installed SuSE 7.1 somewhere. > During the install: "VM: killing process rpm", > leaving the installer rather confused. > (An empty machine, 256MB, 144MB swap, I think 2.2.18.) That's the 2.2 kernel ... > Last month I had a computer algebra process running for a week. > Killed. But this computation was the only task this machine had. > Its sole reason of existence. > Too bad - zero information out of a week's computation. > (I think 2.4.0.) > > Clearly, Linux cannot be reliable if any process can be killed > at any moment. I am not happy at all with my recent experiences. Note that the OOM killer in 2.4 won't kick in until your machine is out of both memory and swap, see mm/oom_kill.c::out_of_memory(). regards, 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/