Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 02 Apr 2005 20:36:37 +0300 | From | Indrek Kruusa <> | Subject | 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 >> - >> 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.
:) 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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