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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 4415aa915681..902b4574acfb 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -555,12 +555,12 @@ this is causing problems for your system/application. 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, 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. +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, nr_ptes, nr_pmds, 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 @@ -728,7 +728,7 @@ The default value is 60. - user_reserve_kbytes -When overcommit_memory is set to 2, "never overommit" mode, reserve +When overcommit_memory is set to 2, "never overcommit" mode, reserve min(3% of current process size, user_reserve_kbytes) of free memory. This is intended to prevent a user from starting a single memory hogging process, such that they cannot recover (kill the hog). |