Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 9 Oct 2000 20:42:26 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | 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 Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 04:19:55PM -0400, Byron Stanoszek wrote: > > In the OOM killer, shouldn't there be a check for PID 1 just to enforce that > > Init can't be killed in 2.2.x latest, the same bugfix should be forward > ported to 2.4.x.
I believe we should not special-case init in this case. If the OOM would kill init then we *want* to know about it ASAP, because it's either a bug in the OOM code or a memory leak in init. Both things are very bad, and ignoring the kill would just preserve those bugs artificially.
Ingo
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