Re: Misleading OOM messages

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> While we are at it: Could we get rid of the name "Out of Memory" and stop
> printing texts to that effect? What we call an OOM is a failure to
> perform memory reclaim or we are running out of reserves due
> to not being able to run reclaim. Mostly this is due to OS internal issues
> having nothing to do actual amounts of memory available.

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

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

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