Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 9 Oct 2000 17:06:48 -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, 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 ;)
(in which case you simply don't care if init is being killed or not)
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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