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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] log out-of-virtual-memory events
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 19 May 2007 12:34:01 +0200 (MEST) Andrea Righi <righiandr@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
>> Print informations about userspace processes that fail to allocate new virtual
>> memory.
>
> Why is this useful?
>

Well... in strict overcommit mode (overcommit_memory=2) this is the only way to
track down problems of the (bad-designed) user applications that exit when they
receive a -ENOMEM without logging anything... and, anyway, it could be an
additional aid in figuring out what is going wrong on inside a system. BTW, I
don't think it should be enabled by default, so this is the reason why it should
depend on print_fatal_signals patch.

-Andrea
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