Re: make OOM more "user friendly"

[Indrek Kruusa <indrek.kruusa@tuleriit.ee>]

Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:

> Diego Calleja schrieb:
>
> > 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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> >  
> I disagree this is _not_ usefull. If the user don't knows what OOM 
> means he can use google to get this information.


:)  Somewhat like "Use your mobile phone to call helpdesk if your mobile 
phone is broken". Maybe such messages should have some kind of link to 
information  in Documentation/  ?

regards,
Indrek


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