Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Mar 2001 21:57:20 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Szabolcs Szakacsits <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init |
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Guest section DW wrote: > Presently however, a flawless program can be killed. > That is what makes Linux unreliable.
Your advocation is "save the application, crash the OS!". But you can't be blamed because everybody's first reaction is this :) But if you start to think you get the conclusion that process killing can't be avoided if you want the system keep running. But I agree Linux lacks some important things [see my other email] that could make the situation easily and inexpensively controllable.
BTW, your app isn't flawless because it doesn't consider Linux memory management is [quasi-]overcommit-only at present ;) [or you used other apps as well, e.g. login, ps, cron is enough to kill your app when it stopped at OOM time].
Szaka
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