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SubjectRe: Misleading OOM messages
* Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> [2009-05-18 10:34:22]:

> On Sat, 16 May 2009, Balbir Singh wrote:
>
> > > But that is a resource control isssue. Should also not say out of memory
> > > but state that the cgroup memory limit was reached.
> > >
> >
> > But we are out of memory for the cgroup under consideration.
>
> Not necessarily. This only occurs if the cgroup cannot swap or if
> allocations are done that are not swappable.
>

Isn't that the equivalent of out of memory for the system? What would
you like the OOM message to state?

--
Balbir


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