Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:24:12 +0100 | From | Philipp Rumpf <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler |
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On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:06:07PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > 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 ;)
So it's not dead in the "oh, it'll be back in 30 seconds" sense. So our behaviour is broken (more so than random process killing).
> > 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
that's what I said. we need to be sure to _get_ a panic() though. - 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/
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