Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Mar 2001 17:30:58 +0200 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > That depends what you mean by "must not". If it's your missile guidance > > system, aircraft autopilot or life support system, the system must not run > > out of memory in the first place. If the system breaks down badly, killing > > init and thus panicking (hence rebooting, if the system is set up that > > way) seems the best approach. > > Ultra reliable systems dont contain memory allocators. There are good reasons > for this but the design trade offs are rather hard to make in a real world > environment
I esp. they run on CPU's without a stack or what? - 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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