Re: Misleading OOM messages

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 14 May 2009, Dave Hansen wrote:

> -	printk(KERN_ERR "%s: kill process %d (%s) score %li or a child\n",
> +	printk(KERN_ERR "No available memory %s: "
> +			"kill process %d (%s) score %li or a child\n",
>  					message, task_pid_nr(p), p->comm, points);

"No available memory" still suggests that plugging in more memory is the
right solution.

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