When people gets OOM messages, many of them don't know what is happening or what
OOM means. This brief message explains it.

--- stable/mm/oom_kill.c.orig   2005-04-02 17:44:14.000000000 +0200
+++ stable/mm/oom_kill.c        2005-04-02 18:01:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -189,7 +189,8 @@
                return;
        }
        task_unlock(p);
-       printk(KERN_ERR "Out of Memory: Killed process %d (%s).\n", p->pid, 
p->comm);
+       printk(KERN_ERR "The system has run Out Of Memory (RAM + swap), a 
process will be killed to free some memory\n");
+       printk(KERN_ERR "OOM: Killed process %d (%s).\n", p->pid, p->comm);
 
        /*
         * We give our sacrificial lamb high priority and access to
-
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