Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 9 Oct 2000 22:06:06 +0200 | From | "Andi Kleen" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler |
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On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 10:06:02PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Andrea Arcangeli 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. > > i think the OOM algorithm should not kill processes that have > child-processes, it should first kill child-less 'leaves'. Killing a > process that has child processes likely results in unexpected behavior of > those child-processes. (and equals to effective killing of those > child-processes as well.)
netscape usually has child processes: the dns helper.
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