On Thu 05-06-14 14:01:02, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2014, Michal Hocko wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Memcg oom killer printing is controlled mostly by 
> mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(), I don't see anything in the generic oom 
> killer that should be removed and that I have not used even for memcg ooms 
> in the past.

Yes, I find most of the information printed during OOM very helpful.
After 58cf188ed649 (memcg, oom: provide more precise dump info while
memcg oom happening) even memcg oom info is helpful.

> Perhaps there could be a case made for suppressing some of the 
> hierarchical stats from being printed for memcg ooms and controlled by 
> another memcg knob, but it doesn't sound vital.

Agreed.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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