Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 09 Oct 2000 13:14:30 -0700 | From | David Ford <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler |
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Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:30:20PM -0700, David Ford wrote: > > Init should only get killed if it REALLY is taking a lot of memory. On a 4 or 8meg > > Init should never get killed. Killing init can be compared to destroy the TCP > stack. Some app can keep to run right for some minute until they run socket() > and then they will hang. Same with init, some task may still run right for > some time but the machine will die eventually. We simply must not pass the > point of not return or we're buggy and after the bug triggered we have to force > the user to reboot the machine as only way to recover.
After 1/2 a second of deep reflection, I concur. Pretty much all interactive processes will die immediately. That just doesn't make for happy penguins.
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