Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

Stephen Satchell
2001-03-25T05:46:35Z

At 12:41 AM 3/25/01 +0100, you wrote:
>If your box is running for example a mail server, and it appears that
>another process is juste eating the free memory, do you really want to kill
>the mail server, just because it's the main process and consuming more
>memory and CPU than others?
>
>Well, fine, your OS is up, but your application is not here anymore.

If you have a mission-critical application running on your box, add it to
the inittab file with the RESPAWN attribute. That way, OOM killer kills
it, init notices it, and init restarts your server.

By the way, are the people working on the OOM-killer also working to avoid
killing task 1?

Satch