On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Denis Doroshenko <denis.doroshe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> so the OS needs to do something. what should it do? should it just > panic? or may be losing one process is better than losing them all? > then, what are the criteria for choosing processes to be killed?.. > > wondering if "random" means the process with PID 1 could be one of them... The process killer in modern Linux 2.6 doesn't quite suffer the same stupid as early versions. It doesn't mean I like it, but it's unlikely to cause you nearly as much pain. Back to your regularly scheduled OpenBSD fsck(8) discussion.
