On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 08:42:26PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

quoted

ignoring the kill would just preserve those bugs artificially.

If the oom killer kills a thing like init by mistake

That only happens in the "random" OOM killer 2.2 has ...

So you have two choices:

o	math proof that the current algorithm without the magic can't end
	killing init (and I should be able to proof the other way around
	instead)

o	have a magic check for init

So the magic is _strictly_ necessary at the moment.

No. It's only needed if your OOM algorithm is so crappy that
it might end up killing init by mistake.

Rik
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