Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 May 2009 17:14:01 -0400 (EDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Misleading OOM messages |
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While we are at it: Could we get rid of the name "Out of Memory" and stop printing texts to that effect? What we call an OOM is a failure to perform memory reclaim or we are running out of reserves due to not being able to run reclaim. Mostly this is due to OS internal issues having nothing to do actual amounts of memory available.
I have seen scores of people put more memory into their boxes because they thought they did not have enough memory. Then there are those that lower ulimit values so that users cannot allocate so much memory.
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