On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:07:32PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > No. It's only needed if your OOM algorithm is so crappy that > it might end up killing init by mistake. The algorithm you posted on the list in this thread will kill init if on 4Mbyte machine without swap init is large 3 Mbytes and you execute a task that grows over 1M. So I repeat again: for correctness you should either fix the oom algorithm and demonstrate with math that it can't kill init or fix the bug using a magic check. Since it's not going to be possible to proof that an oom algorithm won't kill init (also considering init isn't always /sbin/init) the magic check is going to be the only bugfix possible. Andrea - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 ... Ingo Molnar
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM... Dmitry Pogosyan
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM... David Ford
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM... Marco Colombo
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler David Weinehall
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler David Weinehall
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler Andrea Arcangeli
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler Ingo Molnar
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM han... Andrea Arcangeli
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM... Rik van Riel
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 &... Andrea Arcangeli
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 ... Ingo Molnar
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 ... Andi Kleen
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 ... Ingo Molnar
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 ... Rik van Riel
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 ... Ingo Molnar
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 ... Rik van Riel
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 ... Philipp Rumpf
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 ... James Sutherland
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 ... Rik van Riel
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 ... J.A. Sutherland