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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-07-31 19:25:39 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-07-31 19:25:39 -0700 |
commit | ac694dbdbc403c00e2c14d10bc7b8412cc378259 (patch) | |
tree | e37328cfbeaf43716dd5914cad9179e57e84df76 /Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | |
parent | a40a1d3d0a2fd613fdec6d89d3c053268ced76ed (diff) | |
parent | 437ea90cc3afdca5229b41c6b1d38c4842756cb9 (diff) |
Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)
Merge Andrew's second set of patches:
- MM
- a few random fixes
- a couple of RTC leftovers
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (120 commits)
rtc/rtc-88pm80x: remove unneed devm_kfree
rtc/rtc-88pm80x: assign ret only when rtc_register_driver fails
mm: hugetlbfs: close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page tables
tmpfs: distribute interleave better across nodes
mm: remove redundant initialization
mm: warn if pg_data_t isn't initialized with zero
mips: zero out pg_data_t when it's allocated
memcg: gix memory accounting scalability in shrink_page_list
mm/sparse: remove index_init_lock
mm/sparse: more checks on mem_section number
mm/sparse: optimize sparse_index_alloc
memcg: add mem_cgroup_from_css() helper
memcg: further prevent OOM with too many dirty pages
memcg: prevent OOM with too many dirty pages
mm: mmu_notifier: fix freed page still mapped in secondary MMU
mm: memcg: only check anon swapin page charges for swap cache
mm: memcg: only check swap cache pages for repeated charging
mm: memcg: split swapin charge function into private and public part
mm: memcg: remove needless !mm fixup to init_mm when charging
mm: memcg: remove unneeded shmem charge type
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 30 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 96f0ee825be..dcc2a94ae34 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - mmap_min_addr - nr_hugepages - nr_overcommit_hugepages -- nr_pdflush_threads - nr_trim_pages (only if CONFIG_MMU=n) - numa_zonelist_order - oom_dump_tasks @@ -426,16 +425,6 @@ See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt ============================================================== -nr_pdflush_threads - -The current number of pdflush threads. This value is read-only. -The value changes according to the number of dirty pages in the system. - -When necessary, additional pdflush threads are created, one per second, up to -nr_pdflush_threads_max. - -============================================================== - nr_trim_pages This is available only on NOMMU kernels. @@ -502,9 +491,10 @@ oom_dump_tasks Enables a system-wide task dump (excluding kernel threads) to be produced when the kernel performs an OOM-killing and includes such -information as pid, uid, tgid, vm size, rss, cpu, oom_adj score, and -name. This is helpful to determine why the OOM killer was invoked -and to identify the rogue task that caused it. +information as pid, uid, tgid, vm size, rss, nr_ptes, swapents, +oom_score_adj score, and name. This is helpful to determine why the +OOM killer was invoked, to identify the rogue task that caused it, +and to determine why the OOM killer chose the task it did to kill. If this is set to zero, this information is suppressed. On very large systems with thousands of tasks it may not be feasible to dump @@ -574,16 +564,24 @@ of physical RAM. See above. page-cluster -page-cluster controls the number of pages which are written to swap in -a single attempt. The swap I/O size. +page-cluster controls the number of pages up to which consecutive pages +are read in from swap in a single attempt. This is the swap counterpart +to page cache readahead. +The mentioned consecutivity is not in terms of virtual/physical addresses, +but consecutive on swap space - that means they were swapped out together. It is a logarithmic value - setting it to zero means "1 page", setting it to 1 means "2 pages", setting it to 2 means "4 pages", etc. +Zero disables swap readahead completely. The default value is three (eight pages at a time). There may be some small benefits in tuning this to a different value if your workload is swap-intensive. +Lower values mean lower latencies for initial faults, but at the same time +extra faults and I/O delays for following faults if they would have been part of +that consecutive pages readahead would have brought in. + ============================================================= panic_on_oom |