Re: Misleading OOM messages

[Christoph Lameter]

On Fri, 15 May 2009, Dave Hansen wrote:

> Perhaps we should ensure that total RAM mlock()ed + vm_dirty_bytes is
> always under total ram.  That'll force people to either stop mlocking or
> do the safe thing which is drop vm_dirty_bytes.

Guess a global mlock ratio would be good? Set it at a reasonable limit of
10% and tell the user that the system may OOM if set too high.

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