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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init
    On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:26:22PM +0000, James A. Sutherland wrote:

    > > Clearly, Linux cannot be reliable if any process can be killed
    > > at any moment.
    >
    > What on earth did you expect to happen when the process exceeded the
    > machine's capabilities? Using more than all the resources fails. There
    > isn't an alternative.

    That is the wrong way to phrase these things.
    Large processes usually do not have a definite set of needed resources.
    They can use lots of memory for buffers and cache and hash and be a bit
    faster, or use much less and be a bit slower.
    Linux first promises a lot of memory, but then fails to deliver,
    without returning any error to the program.

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