Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

Jonathan Morton (chromi@cyberspace.org)
Sat, 24 Mar 2001 12:42:00 +0000


>General thread comment:
>To those who are griping, and obviously rightfully so, Rik has twice
>stated on this list that he could use some help with VM auto-balancing.
>The responses (visible on this list at least) was rather underwhelming.
>I noted no public exchange of ideas.. nada in fact.
>
>Get off your lazy butts and do something about it. Don't work on the
>oom-killer though.. that's only a symptom. Work on the problem instead.

Since I'm hacking around in this area anyway (warning: kernel newbie
alert!), I'd be happy to help examine the balancing code from a fresh
perspective. Where should I be looking?

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