Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:46:27 -0800 | | From | Tim Wright <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init |
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On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 06:38:37PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > infinite storage. After all, earlier Unix flavours did not need > > an OOM killer either, and my editor was not killed under Unix V6 > > on 64k when I started some other process. > > You were lucky. Its quite possible for V6 to kill processes when you run out > of swap >
It was actually worse than that. Grab your copy of "Lions", and check lines 4375-4377 in function xswap(). A failure to allocate space in the swapmap caused a panic. Same problem in xalloc().
Tim
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