Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Wed Mar 21 2001 - 18:48:54 EST

On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Patrick O'Rourke wrote:

> Since the system will panic if the init process is chosen by
> the OOM killer, the following patch prevents select_bad_process()
> from picking init.

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

I think that the scoring algorithm should make sure that
we never pick init, unless the system is screwed so badly
that init is broken or the only process left ;)

Rik 

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