Messages in this thread | | | From | James Sutherland <> | Subject | Re: Avoiding OOM on overcommit...? | Date | Mon, 20 Mar 2000 13:42:00 +0000 |
| |
>It all depends on the application. I have seen embeded systems that >could cause a loss of life on failure. I have worked on some that >almost cost the job of the manager who sent it out.
Definitely not the target market of the standard Linux kernel. While I like Linux, I don't want to find myself on a penguin-powered life support system. Equally, I don't want to run a mission-critical embedded OS on my desktop PC.
(Perhaps something like RTLinux could address these problems?)
James.
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |