Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

[Rik van Riel]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> > 
> > > This is due to the broken calculation formula in oom_kill().
> > 
> > Feel free to write better-working code.
> 
> I don't get paid for it and I'm not idling through my days...

  <similar response from Andries>

Well, in that case you'll have to live with the current OOM
killer.  Martin wrote down a pretty detailed description of
what's wrong with my algorithm, if it really bothers him he
should be able to come up with something better.

Personally, I think there is more important VM code to look
after, since OOM is a pretty rare occurrance anyway.

regards,

Rik
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