From: Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@tiscali.de>
To: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: make OOM more "user friendly"
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 18:58:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <424ECF4D.6070800@tiscali.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050402180545.29e10629.diegocg@gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-02 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-02 16:05 make OOM more "user friendly" Diego Calleja
2005-04-02 16:58 ` Matthias-Christian Ott [this message]
2005-04-02 17:11 ` Diego Calleja
2005-04-02 17:36 ` Indrek Kruusa
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