Re: make OOM more "user friendly"

[Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@tiscali.de>]

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
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I disagree this is _not_ usefull. If the user don't knows what OOM means 
he can use google to get this information.

Matthias-Christian Ott