Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:03:09 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Some questions about linux kernel. |
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, James Sutherland wrote:
> It then looks like a legitimate process, and other things die > :-) > > > People have actually tried this and my patch seems to > > catch the hog just fine :) > > Any sufficiently well-coded bomb is indistinguishable from an > innocent unattended package :-)
Indeed. There is always a way to fool any OOM killer. The only thing that could save us here are proper per-user resource limits, but even then we'd still want an emergency OOM killer to rescue the system in situations where we hit the wall...
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