Re: Andrea VM changes

[Matthias Andree]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> 05_vm_09_misc_junk-3 removes the PF_MEMDIE and you also seem to remove the
> OOM killer. Is that right? Why?

Nuking OOM killer is IMHO a sane thing to do. Unless you start
everything out of PID #1 which is unkillable, usually init(8), you don't
want the OOM killer. Imagine it nukes your portmap. With Linux portmap
that doesn't support warm starts (unlike Solaris 8), this means: reboot.

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Matthias Andree

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