Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:06:07 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler |
| |
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Philipp Rumpf wrote:
> > > The algorithm you posted on the list in this thread will kill > > > init if on 4Mbyte machine without swap init is large 3 Mbytes > > > and you execute a task that grows over 1M. > > > > This sounds suspiciously like the description of a DEAD system ;) > > But wouldn't a watchdog daemon which doesn't allocate any memory > still get run ?
Indeed, it would. It would also /prevent/ the system from automatically rebooting itself into a usable state ;)
> > (in which case you simply don't care if init is being killed or not) > > You care about getting an automatic reboot. So you need to be sure the > watchdog daemon gets killed first or you panic() after some time.
echo 30 > /proc/sys/kernel/panic
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |