Re: Behavior under swap catastrophe?
david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.c.h.i.i.l.u.s)
17 Feb 1997 10:17:53 -0800
In article <linux.kernel.e5lnbi.5v7@bigred.inka.de>,
Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de> wrote:
>Rudolf Leitgeb <leitgeb@variable.stanford.edu> wrote:
>> If init dies, you get logged out and the offensive process (the one that
>> eats all the memory) is terminated. But usually at least the operating
>> system survives. The only way to prevent a process from eating too much
>
>If init ever dies, the system is toast and needs the reset button.
Hmm? It's been my experience that if /sbin/init ever dies, the kernel
spits out a printk and restarts it; I don't believe this behavior has
changed in recent kernels.
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