On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 06:38:37PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > infinite storage. After all, earlier Unix flavours did not need > > an OOM killer either, and my editor was not killed under Unix V6 > > on 64k when I started some other process. > > You were lucky. Its quite possible for V6 to kill processes when you run out > of swap > It was actually worse than that. Grab your copy of "Lions", and check lines 4375-4377 in function xswap(). A failure to allocate space in the swapmap caused a panic. Same problem in xalloc(). Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.sourceforge.net/ "Nobody ever said I was charming, they said "Rimmer, you're a git!"" RD VI - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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