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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init
    On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:14:41AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
    > Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes:
    > Is there ever a case where killing init is the right thing to do?

    There are cases where panic() is the right thing to do. Broken init
    is such a case.

    > My impression is that if init is selected the whole machine dies.
    > If you can kill init and still have a machine that mostly works,

    you can't.

    > Guaranteeing not to select init can buy you piece of mind because
    > init if properly setup can put the machine back together again, while
    > not special casing init means something weird might happen and init
    > would be selected.

    If we're in a situation where long-running processes with relatively
    small VM are killed the box is very unlikely to be usable anyway.
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