Re: [PATCH] quieten OOM killer noise

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Hi,

> Why not just remove the printk's when DEBUG_KERNEL is off. The problem
> that I've found is that the latency in the system sky rockets when OOM
> triggers. It's due to the excessive printk usage. 
> 
> I'm sure it's not ifdef'ed for a reason , but it would be nice to have an
> easy way to silence it.

We've had customer situations where that information would have been
very useful. Also DEBUG_KERNEL is enabled on some distros so it wouldnt
help there.

Id suggest adding a printk level to the printks in mm/oom-kill.c and
using /proc/sys/kernel/printk to silence them.

Anton
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