Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 May 2009 11:29:09 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Misleading OOM messages |
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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 -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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