Re: Misleading OOM messages

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 14 May 2009, David Rientjes wrote:

> > To me it at least adds the fact that more should be made *available* and
> > not just that you're out of it.  So, definitely not perfect, but better
> > than "out".
> >
>
> I think "no allowable memory" followed by information on what is and is
> not allowed in that specific context would remove any ambiguity.

Useful information to have. If a NUMA or cgroup restriction caused the
failure then we should print that out.

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