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| author | Florian Schmaus <flow@cs.fau.de> | 2019-08-12 14:05:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Florian Schmaus <flow@cs.fau.de> | 2019-08-12 14:15:11 +0200 |
| commit | 863b16e7043ee39674e8f0bbea4c7d5accfaf9a5 (patch) | |
| tree | ab800008464bde889d86c56ad8e77c8f3caa0614 | |
| parent | e8e518ce87570586c2a7f7b84ebaead05b2b89a5 (diff) | |
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Improve scalloc error message
| -rw-r--r-- | src/allocators/scalloc.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/allocators/scalloc.py b/src/allocators/scalloc.py index f2f15b4..6d1b0dd 100644 --- a/src/allocators/scalloc.py +++ b/src/allocators/scalloc.py @@ -30,8 +30,11 @@ class Scalloc (Allocator): def build(self): with open("/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory", "r") as f: if f.read()[0] != "1": - print_error("Scalloc needs permission to overcommit_memory") - raise AssertionError("vm.overcommit_memory not set") + raise AssertionError("""\ +vm.overcommit_memory not set +Scalloc needs permission to overcommit_memory. +sysctl vm.overcommit_memory=1 +""") return super().build() |