Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:29:44 -0300 (BRST) | | From | Rik van Riel <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init |
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Tom Kondilis wrote:
> I had a 2.4.3pre3 do a 'Killing Init' > My assuption is that I had a large benchmark running, while the benchmark > was running, I updated inittab to uncomment a mgetty of my serial port, and > followed it with a 'telinit q'. > When the system thought it ran out of memory with '1-order allocation > failures' during a fork, which I think its a defect , because I still have > 14GB of Swap left in the system. My system was dead. > A real life case of killing Init.
That's not the OOM killer however, but init dying because it couldn't get the memory it needed to satisfy a page fault or somesuch...
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