Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:01:43 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init |
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Guest section DW wrote:
> > One question ... has the OOM killer ever selected init on > > anybody's system ? > > Last week I installed SuSE 7.1 somewhere. > During the install: "VM: killing process rpm", > leaving the installer rather confused. > (An empty machine, 256MB, 144MB swap, I think 2.2.18.)
That's the 2.2 kernel ...
> Last month I had a computer algebra process running for a week. > Killed. But this computation was the only task this machine had. > Its sole reason of existence. > Too bad - zero information out of a week's computation. > (I think 2.4.0.) > > Clearly, Linux cannot be reliable if any process can be killed > at any moment. I am not happy at all with my recent experiences.
Note that the OOM killer in 2.4 won't kick in until your machine is out of both memory and swap, see mm/oom_kill.c::out_of_memory().
regards,
Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose...
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