Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 10 Oct 2000 20:09:52 +1100 | From | john slee <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler |
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On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 06:34:29PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > > Would this complexity /really/ be worth it for the twice-yearly OOM > > > situation? > > > > the only reason i suggested this was the init=/bin/bash, 4MB > > RAM, no swap emergency-bootup case. We must not kill init in > > that case - if the current code doesnt then great and none of > > this is needed.
perhaps a boot time option oom=0 ? since oom is such a rare case, this wouldn't impact normal usage...
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