Re: make OOM more "user friendly"

[Indrek Kruusa <indrek.kruusa@tuleriit.ee>]

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
>> -
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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.


:)  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