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| author | Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> | 2006-06-24 08:41:41 -0400 |
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| committer | Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> | 2006-06-24 13:07:53 -0400 |
| commit | 816724e65c72a90a44fbad0ef0b59b186c85fa90 (patch) | |
| tree | 421fa29aedff988e392f92780637553e275d37a0 /Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | |
| parent | 70ac4385a13f78bc478f26d317511893741b05bd (diff) | |
| parent | d384ea691fe4ea8c2dd5b9b8d9042eb181776f18 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' of /home/trondmy/kernel/linux-2.6/
Conflicts:
fs/nfs/inode.c
fs/super.c
Fix conflicts between patch 'NFS: Split fs/nfs/inode.c' and patch
'VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount'
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index a46c10f..2dc246a 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - drop-caches - zone_reclaim_mode - zone_reclaim_interval +- panic_on_oom ============================================================== @@ -178,3 +179,15 @@ Time is set in seconds and set by default to 30 seconds. Reduce the interval if undesired off node allocations occur. However, too frequent scans will have a negative impact onoff node allocation performance. +============================================================= + +panic_on_oom + +This enables or disables panic on out-of-memory feature. If this is set to 1, +the kernel panics when out-of-memory happens. If this is set to 0, the kernel +will kill some rogue process, called oom_killer. Usually, oom_killer can kill +rogue processes and system will survive. If you want to panic the system +rather than killing rogue processes, set this to 1. + +The default value is 0. + |
