Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

Rik van Riel
2001-03-24T06:39:47Z

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, george anzinger wrote:

> What happens if you just make swap VERY large? Does the system thrash
> it self to a virtual standstill?

It does. I need to implement load control code (so we suspend
processes in turn to keep the load low enough so we can avoid
thrashing).

> Is this a possible answer? Supposedly you could then sneak in and
> blow away the bad guys manually ...

This certainly works.

regards,

Rik
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