From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261274AbTHaLuy (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2003 07:50:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261346AbTHaLuy (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2003 07:50:54 -0400 Received: from krusty.dt.E-Technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE ([129.217.163.1]:9944 "EHLO mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261274AbTHaLux (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2003 07:50:53 -0400 Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 13:50:50 +0200 From: Matthias Andree To: lkml Subject: Re: Andrea VM changes Message-ID: <20030831115050.GC30252@merlin.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: lkml References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > 05_vm_09_misc_junk-3 removes the PF_MEMDIE and you also seem to remove the > OOM killer. Is that right? Why? Nuking OOM killer is IMHO a sane thing to do. Unless you start everything out of PID #1 which is unkillable, usually init(8), you don't want the OOM killer. Imagine it nukes your portmap. With Linux portmap that doesn't support warm starts (unlike Solaris 8), this means: reboot. -- Matthias Andree Encrypt your mail: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95