[Samba] Samba/NT_STATUS_NO_MEMORY

[Robert Buck]

Thank you everyone!

On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 5:55 PM Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2020-10-28 at 16:46 -0400, Andrew Walker via samba wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 4:38 PM Robert Buck via samba <
> > samba at lists.samba.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > We see these messages showing up in the logs. What does this mean?
> > > Definition?
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > > Bob
> > >
> > >
> > It's most likely a conversion of ENOMEM to an NT status code. These
> > can be
> > returned for a variety of reasons, and we can't really say more
> > without the
> > relevant log entries.
>
> Yeah, so often 'no memory' (which almost never happens in modern
> systems due to the way memory allocation happens) really mean
> 'unexpected null pointer', so can mean literally anything.
>
> Real out of memory conditions are much more likely to turn into the
> pleasent feeling of a SIGKILL to the throat via the Kernel's OOM killer
> (and, sadly quite likely to the 'wrong' process).
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
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