On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Philipp Rumpf wrote:

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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.

This sounds suspiciously like the description of a DEAD system ;)

But wouldn't a watchdog daemon which doesn't allocate any memory
still get run ?

Indeed, it would. It would also /prevent/ the system
from automatically rebooting itself into a usable state ;)

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(in which case you simply don't care if init is being killed or not)

You care about getting an automatic reboot.  So you need to be sure the
watchdog daemon gets killed first or you panic() after some time.

echo 30 > /proc/sys/kernel/panic

regards,

Rik
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