Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:24:14 -0600 | From | Philipp Rumpf <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init |
| |
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 08:48:54PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > 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 ?
Yes, I managed to reproduce this a while ago. (init was the only process around though).
We don't ever kill init, fwiw; we panic(), which is the right thing to do if init can't keep running.
> 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 ;)
I can't think of a situation where the OOM killer does the wrong thing. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |