Re: Some questions about linux kernel.

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2000 - 12:40:27 EST


On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Peter T. Breuer wrote:

> > For the time being, though, the simple "kill the most likely suspect"
> > patch should be a pretty good approximation.
>
> Nope. It isn't. It's unacceptable in practice.
>
> I run labs. The lab machines have to have defenses against
> _themselves_.
>
> Even so, I get reports every couple of days from machines that
> have obviously killed themselves.

You don't run the OOM killer. You haven't tried it.
Yet you want to judge it without any knowledge about
it...

Rik

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