Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:47:27 +0100 | From | Guest section DW <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init |
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On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 08:48:54PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Patrick O'Rourke wrote:
> > Since the system will panic if the init process is chosen by > > the OOM killer, the following patch prevents select_bad_process() > > from picking init.
There is a dozen other processes that must not be killed. Init is just a random example.
> One question ... has the OOM killer ever selected init on > anybody's system ?
Last week I installed SuSE 7.1 somewhere. During the install: "VM: killing process rpm", leaving the installer rather confused. (An empty machine, 256MB, 144MB swap, I think 2.2.18.)
Last month I had a computer algebra process running for a week. Killed. But this computation was the only task this machine had. Its sole reason of existence. Too bad - zero information out of a week's computation. (I think 2.4.0.)
Clearly, Linux cannot be reliable if any process can be killed at any moment. I am not happy at all with my recent experiences.
Andries
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