Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

Alan Cox
2001-03-23T17:32:46Z

> 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

Solving the trivial overcommit case is not a difficult task but since I don't
believe it is needed I'll wait for those who moan so loudly to do it