From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 20:18:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Jakma Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init In-Reply-To: <20010323182105.C6487@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: "Eric W. Biederman" , Rik van Riel , Michael Peddemors , Stephen Clouse , Patrick O'Rourke , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Guest section DW wrote: > But yes, I am complaining because Linux by default is unreliable. no, your distribution is unreliable by default. > I strongly prefer a system that is reliable by default, > and I'll leave it to others to run it in an unreliable mode. currently, setting sensible user limits on my machines means i never get a hosed machine due to OOM. These limits are easy to set via pam_limits. (not perfect though, i think its session specific..) granted, if the machine hasn't been setup with user limits, then linux doesn't deal at all well with OOM, so this should be fixed. but it can easily be argued that admin error in not configuring limits is the main cause for OOM. > Andries regards, --paulj -- 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/