| Date | Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:48:54 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init |
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Patrick O'Rourke wrote:
> Since the system will panic if the init process is chosen by > the OOM killer, the following patch prevents select_bad_process() > from picking init.
One question ... has the OOM killer ever selected init on anybody's system ?
I think that the scoring algorithm should make sure that we never pick init, unless the system is screwed so badly that init is broken or the only process left ;)
Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose...
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