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Subject: Re: Misleading OOM messages
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On Sat, 16 May 2009, Balbir Singh wrote:

> > But that is a resource control isssue. Should also not say out of memory
> > but state that the cgroup memory limit was reached.
> >
>
> But we are out of memory for the cgroup under consideration.

Not necessarily. This only occurs if the cgroup cannot swap or if
allocations are done that are not swappable.