From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 21:57:20 +0200 (MET DST) From: Szabolcs Szakacsits Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init In-Reply-To: <20010322230041.A5598@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: Alan Cox , Stephen Clouse , Rik van Riel , Patrick O'Rourke , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Guest section DW wrote: > Presently however, a flawless program can be killed. > That is what makes Linux unreliable. Your advocation is "save the application, crash the OS!". But you can't be blamed because everybody's first reaction is this :) But if you start to think you get the conclusion that process killing can't be avoided if you want the system keep running. But I agree Linux lacks some important things [see my other email] that could make the situation easily and inexpensively controllable. BTW, your app isn't flawless because it doesn't consider Linux memory management is [quasi-]overcommit-only at present ;) [or you used other apps as well, e.g. login, ps, cron is enough to kill your app when it stopped at OOM time]. Szaka -- 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/