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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 23 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index e96a341eb7e..1d192565e18 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -197,11 +197,22 @@ and may not be fast. panic_on_oom -This enables or disables panic on out-of-memory feature. If this is set to 1, -the kernel panics when out-of-memory happens. If this is set to 0, the kernel -will kill some rogue process, called oom_killer. Usually, oom_killer can kill -rogue processes and system will survive. If you want to panic the system -rather than killing rogue processes, set this to 1. +This enables or disables panic on out-of-memory feature. -The default value is 0. +If this is set to 0, the kernel will kill some rogue process, +called oom_killer. Usually, oom_killer can kill rogue processes and +system will survive. + +If this is set to 1, the kernel panics when out-of-memory happens. +However, if a process limits using nodes by mempolicy/cpusets, +and those nodes become memory exhaustion status, one process +may be killed by oom-killer. No panic occurs in this case. +Because other nodes' memory may be free. This means system total status +may be not fatal yet. +If this is set to 2, the kernel panics compulsorily even on the +above-mentioned. + +The default value is 0. +1 and 2 are for failover of clustering. Please select either +according to your policy of failover. |