Re: Andrea VM changes

[Mike Fedyk]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 01:50:50PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> 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.

Can't you just restart the other rpc services after restarting portmap?
(IIRC, I have done exactly this without trobule)
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