On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, David Ford wrote: > Then spam the console loudly with printk, but don't destroy the > whole machine. Init should only get killed if it REALLY is > taking a lot of memory. On a 4 or 8meg machine tho, the > probability of init getting killed is simply too high for > comfort. I have never ever seen init start consuming memory > like this so I'd rather get spammed on the console a LOT then > have my entire machine instantly go dead. Please TEST THIS before spreading Wild Rumours(tm) On 2.2 a /random/ process gets killed when the system gets tight, so you'll see init killed on (pre-kludge) 2.2 kernels, but I don't believe you'll see this with 2.4... regards, Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000 http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/ - 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] OOM killer API (wa... Tom Rini
- Re: [PATCH] OOM killer API (wa... Rik van Riel
- Re: [PATCH] OOM killer API (wa... Tom Rini
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 &... Helge Hafting
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9... Andrea Arcangeli
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-t... Helge Hafting
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-t... Andrea Arcangeli
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OO... David Ford
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 &... Andrea Arcangeli
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9... David Ford
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 &... Rik van Riel
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 &... Alan Cox
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9... Philipp Rumpf
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-t... Andrea Arcangeli
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler James Lewis Nance
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handle... Rik van Riel
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler Rik van Riel
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handle... Philipp Rumpf
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM ha... Rik van Riel
- Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OO... Philipp Rumpf