Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 9 Oct 2000 16:07:32 -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 08:42:26PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > ignoring the kill would just preserve those bugs artificially. > > If the oom killer kills a thing like init by mistake
That only happens in the "random" OOM killer 2.2 has ...
> So you have two choices: > > o math proof that the current algorithm without the magic can't end > killing init (and I should be able to proof the other way around > instead) > > o have a magic check for init > > So the magic is _strictly_ necessary at the moment.
No. It's only needed if your OOM algorithm is so crappy that it might end up killing init by mistake.
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