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 8C82A16B19 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 03:39:47 -0300 (EST) Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 02:55:59 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init In-Reply-To: <3ABBC702.AC9C3C92@mvista.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: george anzinger Cc: Paul Jakma , Szabolcs Szakacsits , Alan Cox , Stephen Clouse , Guest section DW , Patrick O'Rourke , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, george anzinger wrote: > What happens if you just make swap VERY large? Does the system thrash > it self to a virtual standstill? It does. I need to implement load control code (so we suspend processes in turn to keep the load low enough so we can avoid thrashing). > Is this a possible answer? Supposedly you could then sneak in and > blow away the bad guys manually ... This certainly works. 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/