Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Mar 2001 02:52:00 -0500 | From | Doug Ledford <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init |
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"James A. Sutherland" wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Guest section DW wrote: > > (I think 2.4.0.) > > > > Clearly, Linux cannot be reliable if any process can be killed > > at any moment. > > What on earth did you expect to happen when the process exceeded the > machine's capabilities? Using more than all the resources fails. There > isn't an alternative.
You might be successful in convincing myself or Andries of this as soon as the oom killer only kills things when the system is really out of memory. Right now, it's not really an oom killer, it's more like an "I'm Too Lazy To Free Up Some More Pages So Now You Die" (ITLTFUSMPSNYD) killer.
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