Re: Misleading OOM messages

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri May 22 2009 - 17:45:17 EST


On Fri, 22 May 2009 15:44:37 -0400 (EDT)
Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 22 May 2009, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>
> > But I think that normal users won't know what reclaiming memory is anyway,
> > so the patch doesn't help IMO.
>
> If they dont know then they may ask someone who knows and/or report a bug.

So 200,000 people report it to their distribution mailing lists....

Yeah right - not very clever change really
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