Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261658AbVDBQ7K (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Apr 2005 11:59:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261693AbVDBQ7K (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Apr 2005 11:59:10 -0500 Received: from relay1.tiscali.de ([62.26.116.129]:64900 "EHLO webmail.tiscali.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261658AbVDBQ7G (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Apr 2005 11:59:06 -0500 Message-ID: <424ECF4D.6070800@tiscali.de> Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 18:58:53 +0200 From: Matthias-Christian Ott User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050108) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Diego Calleja CC: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: make OOM more "user friendly" References: <20050402180545.29e10629.diegocg@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050402180545.29e10629.diegocg@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1321 Lines: 34 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 >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/