Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 02 Apr 2005 18:58:53 +0200 | From | Matthias-Christian Ott <> | Subject | Re: make OOM more "user friendly" |
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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 >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > I disagree this is _not_ usefull. If the user don't knows what OOM means he can use google to get this information.
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