Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 May 2009 22:43:45 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Misleading OOM messages |
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On Fri, 22 May 2009 15:01:23 -0400 (EDT) Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> Subject: Remove misleading kernel log entries about "Out of Memory" conditions > > What we traditionally call an "out of memory" failure is mostly not really > related to having enough physical memory. "out of memory" occurs when the > memory reclaim attempts fail to provide enough memory for an allocation.
That looks even more misleading. It now sounds like something you should immediately rush out and file in bugzilla.
Not a good change at all
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