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| author |   Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> | 2009-01-29 14:25:09 -0800 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-01-29 18:04:43 -0800 |
| commit | 9e9e3cbc62da43c66e894d5a61fa08b427e25202 (patch) | |
| tree | 5dafdeb919c99a014e694745c2dfe4c46ca6f69e /Documentation | |
| parent | kprobes: fix module compilation error with CONFIG_KPROBES=n (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-9e9e3cbc62da43c66e894d5a61fa08b427e25202.tar.xz linux-dev-9e9e3cbc62da43c66e894d5a61fa08b427e25202.zip | |
mm: OOM documentation update
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 28 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index bbebc3a43ac0..a87be42f8211 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -2027,6 +2027,34 @@ increase the likelihood of this process being killed by the oom-killer. Valid values are in the range -16 to +15, plus the special value -17, which disables oom-killing altogether for this process. +The process to be killed in an out-of-memory situation is selected among all others +based on its badness score. This value equals the original memory size of the process +and is then updated according to its CPU time (utime + stime) and the +run time (uptime - start time). The longer it runs the smaller is the score. +Badness score is divided by the square root of the CPU time and then by +the double square root of the run time. + +Swapped out tasks are killed first. Half of each child's memory size is added to +the parent's score if they do not share the same memory. Thus forking servers +are the prime candidates to be killed. Having only one 'hungry' child will make +parent less preferable than the child. + +/proc/<pid>/oom_score shows process' current badness score. + +The following heuristics are then applied: + * if the task was reniced, its score doubles + * superuser or direct hardware access tasks (CAP_SYS_ADMIN, CAP_SYS_RESOURCE + or CAP_SYS_RAWIO) have their score divided by 4 + * if oom condition happened in one cpuset and checked task does not belong + to it, its score is divided by 8 + * the resulting score is multiplied by two to the power of oom_adj, i.e. + points <<= oom_adj when it is positive and + points >>= -(oom_adj) otherwise + +The task with the highest badness score is then selected and its children +are killed, process itself will be killed in an OOM situation when it does +not have children or some of them disabled oom like described above. + 2.13 /proc/<pid>/oom_score - Display current oom-killer score ------------------------------------------------------------- |