Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Oct 2000 17:18:12 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler |
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On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote: > On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > so dns helper is killed first, then netscape. (my idea might not > > > make sense though.) > > > > It makes some sense, but I don't think OOM is something that > > occurs often enough to care about it /that/ much... > > i'm trying to handle Andrea's case, the init=/bin/bash > manual-bootup case, with 4MB RAM and no swap, where the admin > tries to exec a 2MB process. I think it's a legitimate concern - > i cannot know in advance whether a freshly started process would > trigger an OOM or not.
In that case the time running and the cpu time used factors should give the new process a heavy penalty compared to init.
(but I'd be curious if somebody actually manages to trick the OOM killer into killing init ... please test a bit more to see if this really happens ;))
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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