Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler

[Andrea Arcangeli]

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
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