Re: make OOM more "user friendly"

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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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