Messages in this thread |  | | From | Olaf Titz <> | Subject | Re: Behavior under swap catastrophe? | Date | 14 Feb 1997 16:35:38 +0100 |
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Rudolf Leitgeb <leitgeb@variable.stanford.edu> wrote: > If init dies, you get logged out and the offensive process (the one that > eats all the memory) is terminated. But usually at least the operating > system survives. The only way to prevent a process from eating too much
If init ever dies, the system is toast and needs the reset button. Even a clean shutdown is impossible, since nothing will wait() for exited processes, their process table slots and therefore their working directories remain in zombie state, and umount fails.
olaf -- ___ Olaf.Titz@inka.de or @{stud,informatik}.uni-karlsruhe.de ____ __ o <URL:http://www.inka.de/~bigred/> <IRC:praetorius> __/<_ >> Just as long as the wheels keep on turning round _)>(_)______________ I will live for the groove 'til the sun goes down << ____
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