Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2007 12:34:01 +0200 (MEST) Andrea Righi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Print informations about userspace processes that fail to allocate new >> virtual >> memory. > > Why is this useful? >
Well... in strict overcommit mode (overcommit_memory=2) this is the only way to track down problems of the (bad-designed) user applications that exit when they receive a -ENOMEM without logging anything... and, anyway, it could be an additional aid in figuring out what is going wrong on inside a system. BTW, I don't think it should be enabled by default, so this is the reason why it should depend on print_fatal_signals patch. -Andrea - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
