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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-05-11 09:33:06 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-05-11 09:50:02 +0200 |
| commit | 7a309490da98981558a07183786201f02a6341e2 (patch) | |
| tree | 204bfd3bc344dbb02be0b1eac29b956f6722e661 /Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | |
| parent | 9a8709d44139748fe2e0ab56d20d8c384c8b65ad (diff) | |
| parent | 091bf7624d1c90cec9e578a18529f615213ff847 (diff) | |
Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc5' into x86/apic
Merge reason: this branch was on a .30-rc2 base - sync it up with
all the latest fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 97c4b328432..b716d33912d 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ will itself start writeback. If dirty_bytes is written, dirty_ratio becomes a function of its value (dirty_bytes / the amount of dirtyable system memory). +Note: the minimum value allowed for dirty_bytes is two pages (in bytes); any +value lower than this limit will be ignored and the old configuration will be +retained. + ============================================================== dirty_expire_centisecs |