From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 822C45F0019 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:33:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4A23FF89.2060603@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:19:21 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Warn if we run out of swap space References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Christoph Lameter Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Pavel Machek , Dave Hansen List-ID: 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. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org