Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init
To: dledford@redhat.com (Doug Ledford)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 23:40:54 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
        stephenc@theiqgroup.com (Stephen Clouse),
        dwguest@win.tue.nl (Guest section DW),
        riel@conectiva.com.br (Rik van Riel),
        orourke@missioncriticallinux.com (Patrick O'Rourke),
        linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <3ABA8B02.F28B333A@redhat.com> from "Doug Ledford" at Mar 22, 2001 06:30:10 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> Ummm, yeah, that would pretty much be the claim.  Real easy to reproduce too. 
> Take your favorite machine with lots of RAM, run just a handful of startup
> process and system daemons, then log in on a few terminals and do:
> 
> while true; do bonnie -s (1/2 ram); done
> 
> Pretty soon, system daemons will start to die.

Then thats a bug. I assume you've provided Rik with a detailed test case 
already ?
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