Re: oom() _still_ killing init

Rik van Riel (riel@mirkwood.nl.linux.org)
Thu, 17 Jun 1999 21:04:52 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
>
> >I upgraded from 2.2.5 to 2.2.10-pre-no-way-of-telling-anymore and an out
> >of memory condition[1] killed init again. It would be nice if this weren't
>
> void oom(struct task_struct * task)
> {
> + if (task->pid == 1)
> + goto out;
> printk("\nOut of memory for %s.\n", task->comm);
> force_sig(SIGKILL, task);
> + out:
> }

You're not serious about this, are you?

> (it's against 2.2.10_andrea-VM5)

If such a horrible kludge is needed with your VM patches,
then something must be seriously wrong with them. Besides,
even if a system really runs out of memory, you don't want
the OS to handle it in such a random way that even init is
in danger...

Rik -- Open Source: you deserve to be in control of your data.
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