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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

    On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Guest section DW wrote:
    > Presently however, a flawless program can be killed.
    > That is what makes Linux unreliable.

    Your advocation is "save the application, crash the OS!". But you can't
    be blamed because everybody's first reaction is this :) But if you start
    to think you get the conclusion that process killing can't be avoided if
    you want the system keep running. But I agree Linux lacks some important
    things [see my other email] that could make the situation easily and
    inexpensively controllable.

    BTW, your app isn't flawless because it doesn't consider Linux memory
    management is [quasi-]overcommit-only at present ;) [or you used other
    apps as well, e.g. login, ps, cron is enough to kill your app when it
    stopped at OOM time].

    Szaka

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