Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler

[john slee]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 06:34:29PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > 
> > > Would this complexity /really/ be worth it for the twice-yearly OOM
> > > situation?
> > 
> > the only reason i suggested this was the init=/bin/bash, 4MB
> > RAM, no swap emergency-bootup case. We must not kill init in
> > that case - if the current code doesnt then great and none of
> > this is needed.

perhaps a boot time option oom=0 ?  since oom is such a rare case, this
wouldn't impact normal usage...

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john slee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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