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 5B6BF16FB1 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 04:07:09 -0300 (EST) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 04:04:09 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init In-Reply-To: <20010323015358Z129164-406+3041@vger.kernel.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Michael Peddemors Cc: Stephen Clouse , Guest section DW , Patrick O'Rourke , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 22 Mar 2001, Michael Peddemors wrote: > Here, Here.. killing qmail on a server who's sole task is running mail > doesn't seem to make much sense either.. I won't defend the current OOM killing code. Instead, I'm asking everybody who's unhappy with the current code to come up with something better. 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/