Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 9 Oct 2000 21:05:03 +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 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 or init has a memleak you'll notice both problems regardless of having a magic for init in a _very_ slow path so I don't buy your point. . For corretness init must not be killed ever, period.
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.
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