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| author | Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> | 2006-10-02 08:45:08 -0400 |
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| committer | Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> | 2006-10-02 08:45:08 -0400 |
| commit | 59458f40e25915a355d8b1d701425fe9f4f9ea23 (patch) | |
| tree | f1c9a2934df686e36d75f759ab7313b6f0e0e5f9 /Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |
| parent | 825f9075d74028d11d7f5932f04e1b5db3022b51 (diff) | |
| parent | d834c16516d1ebec4766fc58c059bf01311e6045 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into gfs2
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 7db71d6fba8..7240ee7515d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ Table of Contents 2.9 Appletalk 2.10 IPX 2.11 /proc/sys/fs/mqueue - POSIX message queues filesystem + 2.12 /proc/<pid>/oom_adj - Adjust the oom-killer score + 2.13 /proc/<pid>/oom_score - Display current oom-killer score ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Preface @@ -1962,6 +1964,22 @@ a queue must be less or equal then msg_max. maximum message size value (it is every message queue's attribute set during its creation). +2.12 /proc/<pid>/oom_adj - Adjust the oom-killer score +------------------------------------------------------ + +This file can be used to adjust the score used to select which processes +should be killed in an out-of-memory situation. Giving it a high score will +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. + +2.13 /proc/<pid>/oom_score - Display current oom-killer score +------------------------------------------------------------- + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +This file can be used to check the current score used by the oom-killer is for +any given <pid>. Use it together with /proc/<pid>/oom_adj to tune which +process should be killed in an out-of-memory situation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Summary |