Hi Michal, On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 06:20:12PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > I can see why you want to reduce the amount of information, I guess you > have tried to reduce the loglevel but this hasn't helped because > dump_stack uses default log level which is too low to be usable, right? > Or are there any other reasons? One would be that the stack trace isn't very useful for users IMHO. > I am not sure sysctl is a good way to tell this particular restriction > on the output. What if somebody else doesn't want to see the list of > eligible tasks? Should we add another knob? > > Would it make more sense to distinguish different parts of the OOM > report by loglevel properly? > pr_err - killed task report > pr_warning - oom invocation + memory info > pr_notice - task list > pr_info - stack trace That'd work, yes, but I'd think the stack trace would be pr_debug. At a point that you suspect the OOM killer isn't doing the right thing picking up tasks and you need more information. -- Aristeu -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>