Re: [PATCH] Warn if we run out of swap space

Avi Kivity
2009-06-03T17:33:28Z

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Subject: Warn if we run out of swap space
>
> Running out of swap space means that the evicton of anonymous pages may no longer
> be possible which can lead to OOM conditions.
>
> Print a warning when swap space first becomes exhausted.
>

We really should have a machine readable channel for this sort of
information, so it can be plumbed to a userspace notification bubble the
user can ignore.

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