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

Presently however, a flawless program can be killed.
That is what makes Linux unreliable.

Your advocation is "save the application, crash the OS!". But you can't
be blamed because everybody's first reaction is this :) But if you start
to think you get the conclusion that process killing can't be avoided if
you want the system keep running. But I agree Linux lacks some important
things [see my other email] that could make the situation easily and
inexpensively controllable.

BTW, your app isn't flawless because it doesn't consider Linux memory
management is [quasi-]overcommit-only at present ;) [or you used other
apps as well, e.g. login, ps, cron is enough to kill your app when it
stopped at OOM time].

	Szaka

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