Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:08:41 +0200 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler |
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Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 09:06:49AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > > If you want init to live - prove that it don't eat too much memory. > > I don't see why the machine should be stable only if init is small. > My kernel won't be stable only if init is small since it doesn't cost > anything to handle correctly the big init case. > Nothing wrong with a big init - the problem is a memory-leaking init. That one will die anyway, wether it dies early from an OOM-killer or later when all other processes are gone don't really matter.
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