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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-02-04 14:54:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-02-04 14:54:56 +0100 |
| commit | bb960a1e42042e82447a5bc0941b3ab6d614bac3 (patch) | |
| tree | d2295a923fabb1b01b25bb015c4c2e42ee9df5ca /drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt | |
| parent | 858770619debfb9269add63e4ba8b7c6b5538dd1 (diff) | |
| parent | 06fc732c33a7ff5e4c91bcf4a6ca86b5e335ad9a (diff) | |
Merge branch 'core/xen' into x86/urgent
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt b/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..bd5c0c028968 --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +The lowmemorykiller driver lets user-space specify a set of memory thresholds +where processes with a range of oom_adj values will get killed. Specify the +minimum oom_adj values in /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/adj and the +number of free pages in /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/minfree. Both +files take a comma separated list of numbers in ascending order. + +For example, write "0,8" to /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/adj and +"1024,4096" to /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/minfree to kill processes +with a oom_adj value of 8 or higher when the free memory drops below 4096 pages +and kill processes with a oom_adj value of 0 or higher when the free memory +drops below 1024 pages. + +The driver considers memory used for caches to be free, but if a large +percentage of the cached memory is locked this can be very inaccurate +and processes may not get killed until the normal oom killer is triggered. + |