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    SubjectRe: Misleading OOM messages
    Hi!

    > 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.

    It can be 'low on memory' if you play with mlock() a bit.

    It is out of memory if you run out of swap (or have no swap to begin with).

    I believe message is often correct. What message would you suggest?
    Pavel
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