From: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
To: akpm@osdl.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: make OOM more "user friendly"
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 18:05:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050402180545.29e10629.diegocg@gmail.com> (raw)
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
next reply other threads:[~2005-04-02 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-02 16:05 Diego Calleja [this message]
2005-04-02 16:58 ` make OOM more "user friendly" Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-04-02 17:11 ` Diego Calleja
2005-04-02 17:36 ` Indrek Kruusa
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