Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:13:37 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) | From | Paul Jakma <> | Subject | Re: Overcomittable memory (Was: Linux 2.2.15pre12) |
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On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote:
> P.S. You can all it any way you want but it's sad truth: syslogd, klogd, named > and LOTS and LOTS of other daemons will die if malloc will return ENOMEM. > Welcome to real world from your ivory tower :-) >
then they should be fixed...
linux has never been afraid of calling a spade a spade. And it has never gone out of its way to support bad apps. If crucial system daemons are broken wrt to OOM then they should be fixed, not worked-around.
-paul jakma paul@clubi.ie
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