The oom killer tasklist dump, enabled with the oom_dump_tasks sysctl, is very helpful information in diagnosing why a user's task has been killed. It emits useful information such as each eligible thread's memory usage that can determine why the system is oom, so it should be enabled by default. Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 2 +- mm/oom_kill.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ information may not be desired. If this is set to non-zero, this information is shown whenever the OOM killer actually kills a memory-hogging task. -The default value is 0. +The default value is 1 (enabled). ============================================================== diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c index ef048c1..833de48 100644 --- a/mm/oom_kill.c +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ int sysctl_panic_on_oom; int sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task; -int sysctl_oom_dump_tasks; +int sysctl_oom_dump_tasks = 1; static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(zone_scan_lock); /* #define DEBUG */ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>