Re: [RFC PATCH] mm/oom_kill: dump top 5 memory consumers by RSS in OOM report
From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Aug 13 2026 - 04:13:31 EST
On Tue 11-08-26 14:29:24, Ye Liu wrote:
> From: Ye Liu <liuye@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> When the OOM killer triggers, dump_tasks() prints every task's memory
> state but in no particular order. On systems with hundreds of
> processes, identifying the heaviest memory consumers requires manual
> log post-processing.
Yes, but why is that a problem? It should be a pretty easy script, no?
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs