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Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 18:05:45 +0200
From: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
To: akpm@osdl.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: make OOM more "user friendly"
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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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