Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 9 Oct 2000 17:05:11 -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, David Ford wrote:
> Then spam the console loudly with printk, but don't destroy the > whole machine. Init should only get killed if it REALLY is > taking a lot of memory. On a 4 or 8meg machine tho, the > probability of init getting killed is simply too high for > comfort. I have never ever seen init start consuming memory > like this so I'd rather get spammed on the console a LOT then > have my entire machine instantly go dead.
Please TEST THIS before spreading Wild Rumours(tm)
On 2.2 a /random/ process gets killed when the system gets tight, so you'll see init killed on (pre-kludge) 2.2 kernels, but I don't believe you'll see this with 2.4...
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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