Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 9 Oct 2000 17:40:24 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler |
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On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, James Sutherland wrote: > On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > > > so dns helper is killed first, then netscape. (my idea might not > > > > make sense though.) > > > > > > It makes some sense, but I don't think OOM is something that > > > occurs often enough to care about it /that/ much... > > > > i'm trying to handle Andrea's case, the init=/bin/bash manual-bootup case, > > with 4MB RAM and no swap, where the admin tries to exec a 2MB process. I > > think it's a legitimate concern - i cannot know in advance whether a > > freshly started process would trigger an OOM or not. > > Shouldn't the runtime factor handle this, making sure the new > process is killed? (Maybe not if you're almost OOM right from > the word go, and run this process straight off... Hrm.)
It should.
Also, the example is a tad unrealistic since init seems to be around 70 kB in size on my systems ;)
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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