Re: Kernel messages

From: Diego Calleja (diegocg_at_gmail.com)
Date: 04/14/05

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    Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 2005 14:22:16 +0200
    To: Iwan Sanders <iwan.sanders@tuxproject.info>
    
    

    El Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:03:24 +0200,
    Iwan Sanders <iwan.sanders@tuxproject.info> escribió:

    > Can someone explain to me what just happend? I would really like to know
    > :-)
    > I think that the machine ran out of memory and the OOM killer shot some
    > processes, this is what I found
    > in my logfiles:

    This is exactly the kind of reports that I wanted to avoid with this small cosmetic change:

    --- 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);
     
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              * We give our sacrificial lamb high priority and access to
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