Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 9 Oct 2000 22:18:40 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler |
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On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 05:06:48PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:07:32PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > No. It's only needed if your OOM algorithm is so crappy that > > > it might end up killing init by mistake. > > > > 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 ;)
The system will be DEAD only when your current algorithm will kill init.
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