Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Guest section DW wrote:

quoted

One question ... has the OOM killer ever selected init on
anybody's system ?

Last week I installed SuSE 7.1 somewhere.
During the install: "VM: killing process rpm",
leaving the installer rather confused.
(An empty machine, 256MB, 144MB swap, I think 2.2.18.)

That's the 2.2 kernel ...

Last month I had a computer algebra process running for a week.
Killed. But this computation was the only task this machine had.
Its sole reason of existence.
Too bad - zero information out of a week's computation.
(I think 2.4.0.)

Clearly, Linux cannot be reliable if any process can be killed
at any moment. I am not happy at all with my recent experiences.

Note that the OOM killer in 2.4 won't kick in until your machine
is out of both memory and swap, see mm/oom_kill.c::out_of_memory().

regards,

Rik
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