Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 05 Jun 2014 17:55:54 +0200 | From | Richard Weinberger <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] oom: Be less verbose if the oom_control event fd has listeners |
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Am 05.06.2014 17:00, schrieb Michal Hocko: > On Thu 05-06-14 16:00:41, Richard Weinberger wrote: >> Don't spam the kernel logs if the oom_control event fd has listeners. >> In this case there is no need to print that much lines as user space >> will anyway notice that the memory cgroup has reached its limit. > > But how do you debug why it is reaching the limit and why a particular > process has been killed?
In my case it's always because customer's Java application gone nuts. So I don't really have to debug a lot. ;-) But I can understand your point.
> If we are printing too much then OK, let's remove those parts which are > not that useful but hiding information which tells us more about the oom > decision doesn't sound right to me.
What about adding a sysctl like "vm.oom_verbose"? By default it would be 1. If set to 0 the full OOM information is only printed out if nobody listens to the event fd.
Thanks, //richard
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