Re: [PATCH 00/10] OOM Debug print selection and additional information

Michal Hocko
2019-08-27T10:38:31Z

On Tue 27-08-19 19:10:18, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> On 2019/08/27 16:15, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > All that being said, I do not think this is something we want to merge
> > without a really _strong_ usecase to back it.
>
> Like the sender's domain "arista.com" suggests, some of information is
> geared towards networking devices, and ability to report OOM information
> in a way suitable for automatic recording/analyzing (e.g. without using
> shell prompt, let alone manually typing SysRq commands) would be convenient
> for unattended devices.

Why cannot the remote end of the logging identify the host. It has to
connect somewhere anyway, right? I also do assume that a log collector
already does store each log with host id of some form.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs