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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:48:54 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: "Patrick O'Rourke" <orourke@missioncriticallinux.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Patrick O'Rourke wrote:

> Since the system will panic if the init process is chosen by
> the OOM killer, the following patch prevents select_bad_process()
> from picking init.

One question ... has the OOM killer ever selected init on
anybody's system ?

I think that the scoring algorithm should make sure that
we never pick init, unless the system is screwed so badly
that init is broken or the only process left ;)

Rik
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