Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 20:12:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 20:12:47 -0500 Received: from hera.cwi.nl ([192.16.191.8]:4508 "EHLO hera.cwi.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 20:12:41 -0500 Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 02:11:56 +0100 (MET) From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Message-Id: To: timw@splhi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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(). [no Lions nearby; somewhere I still have the printout but am too lazy to search; I also have the tape but nothing to read it with] yes, you may well be right if you say that my picture of the distant past is too rosy - maybe I forgot all this trouble still - yesterday I lost three edit sessions - I do not recall any such occurrence in the 25 years before - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/