Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sat, 24 Mar 2001 11:40:00 +0100 (CET) | From | Gérard Roudier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init |
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On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Stephen E. Clark wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > You don't beleve me if I tell you: DOS extender and JVM (Java Virtual > > > Machine) > > > > The JVM doesnt actually. The JVM will itself spontaenously explode in real > > life when out of memory. Maybe the JVM on a DOS extender 8) > > > > - > > 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/ > > Back in the early nineties I was working with 18 developers on a Data > General Aviion running DGUX. The system had only 16mb of memory and > 600mb of disk. We were all continuously going thru the edit, compile, > debug steps developing as large Computer Aided Dispatch System. Never > did this system with its limited resources crash, or randomly start > killing user or system processes.
What about the following (it is an estimate):
early nineties --> early eighties 18 developers --> 18 developers 16mb of memory --> 1 mb of memory 600 mb of disk --> 70 mb of disk
Most current applications are so huge BLOATAGE that they should not deserve to be run just once. :-) The kernel must try to cope with that and also with its own BLOATAGE.
Human nature is to eat what can be eaten, regardless if it is useful or not.
> My $.02.
What about 'My M$.02' in some decades. :)
Btw, 'decade' comes from Latin 'deca'=10 and dies=days (not sure for dies). As a result, it should have meant a period of 10 days instead of 10 years. It means a period of 10 days in French.
May-be, a knowledgeable person at this list has an explanation for this misinterpretation. Could it be due to the word 'decadent' that has a very different ethymology.
10 days is too short for getting decadent, but 10 years should be enough, no ? :-)
> Steve
Gérard.
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