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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index f69895738357..dcc75a9ed919 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ files can be found in mm/swap.c. Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: +- admin_reserve_kbytes - block_dump - compact_memory - dirty_background_bytes @@ -59,6 +60,35 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: ============================================================== +admin_reserve_kbytes + +The amount of free memory in the system that should be reserved for users +with the capability cap_sys_admin. + +admin_reserve_kbytes defaults to min(3% of free pages, 8MB) + +That should provide enough for the admin to log in and kill a process, +if necessary, under the default overcommit 'guess' mode. + +Systems running under overcommit 'never' should increase this to account +for the full Virtual Memory Size of programs used to recover. Otherwise, +root may not be able to log in to recover the system. + +How do you calculate a minimum useful reserve? + +sshd or login + bash (or some other shell) + top (or ps, kill, etc.) + +For overcommit 'guess', we can sum resident set sizes (RSS). +On x86_64 this is about 8MB. + +For overcommit 'never', we can take the max of their virtual sizes (VSZ) +and add the sum of their RSS. +On x86_64 this is about 128MB. + +Changing this takes effect whenever an application requests memory. + +============================================================== + block_dump block_dump enables block I/O debugging when set to a nonzero value. More |