Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:29:02 -0600 | From | Philipp Rumpf <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init |
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On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:14:41AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes: > Is there ever a case where killing init is the right thing to do?
There are cases where panic() is the right thing to do. Broken init is such a case.
> My impression is that if init is selected the whole machine dies. > If you can kill init and still have a machine that mostly works,
you can't.
> Guaranteeing not to select init can buy you piece of mind because > init if properly setup can put the machine back together again, while > not special casing init means something weird might happen and init > would be selected.
If we're in a situation where long-running processes with relatively small VM are killed the box is very unlikely to be usable anyway. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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