Anton wrote: > We've had customer situations where that information would have been > very useful.
I haven't looked closely, but when I provoked the oom killer last week a few times while working on something else, I did notice that the printk's that came out were a page or two, per kill. Apparently it is the arch-specific show_mem() routine that was so verbose - this was on an ia64 SN2. Do we really need that lengthy an oom printk? If the other arch's tend to be a little more terse, then I guess you could catalog my complaint as a "personal problem" or at least an "arch problem." In support of this ratelimiting, the other call from main line kernel code to show_mem(), after the __alloc_pages() message: page allocation failure. order:%d, mode:0x%x is already ratelimited. Seems like a good idea. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1.925.600.0401 - 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/