[ILUG] oom fixes and kernel traffic...

[kevin lyda]

jplooney at compapp.dcu.ie spoke thusly:
> That's the side Microsoft took in the Windows 3.11 days - if a program
>crashes your machine, that's not our problem - don't run the program.
>
> If your machine is unusable, for anyr reason, what so ever, it's Linux's
>fault.

really?  try this as root:

# dd of=/dev/kmem if=/dev/zero
# dd if=/dev/zero of=`mount | grep ' / '| awk '{print $1}'`
# rm /bin/init

not satisfied with shell killing?

int main() {while(fork());}

the oom stuff's annoying, but no os is foolproof.  the universe pumps out
very ingenius fools.  as already mentioned there's a lot of discussion on
linux-kernel about oom (again).  there are reasons why your suggested fix
won't work - i haven't followed the topic so i don't know them any more,
but pop over and read up on it.

kevin