When people gets OOM messages, many of them don't know what is happening or what
OOM means. This brief message explains it.
--- stable/mm/oom_kill.c.orig 2005-04-02 17:44:14.000000000 +0200
+++ stable/mm/oom_kill.c 2005-04-02 18:01:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -189,7 +189,8 @@
return;
}
task_unlock(p);
- printk(KERN_ERR "Out of Memory: Killed process %d (%s).\n", p->pid, p->comm);
+ printk(KERN_ERR "The system has run Out Of Memory (RAM + swap), a process will be killed to free some memory\n");
+ printk(KERN_ERR "OOM: Killed process %d (%s).\n", p->pid, p->comm);
/*
* We give our sacrificial lamb high priority and access to
-
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