Re: Misleading OOM messages

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 14 May 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:

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

But that is a reclaim failure becuase of mlocking pages.

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

That is a swap config issue.

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

"Failure to reclaim memory"


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