Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

Doug Ledford
2001-03-24T07:54:22Z

"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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