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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 29 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 6f31f0a..8a4863c 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - dirty_background_ratio - dirty_expire_centisecs - dirty_writeback_centisecs +- highmem_is_dirtyable (only if CONFIG_HIGHMEM set) - max_map_count - min_free_kbytes - laptop_mode @@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - min_unmapped_ratio - min_slab_ratio - panic_on_oom +- oom_dump_tasks - oom_kill_allocating_task - mmap_min_address - numa_zonelist_order @@ -40,9 +42,9 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: ============================================================== dirty_ratio, dirty_background_ratio, dirty_expire_centisecs, -dirty_writeback_centisecs, vfs_cache_pressure, laptop_mode, -block_dump, swap_token_timeout, drop-caches, -hugepages_treat_as_movable: +dirty_writeback_centisecs, highmem_is_dirtyable, +vfs_cache_pressure, laptop_mode, block_dump, swap_token_timeout, +drop-caches, hugepages_treat_as_movable: See Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -231,6 +233,27 @@ according to your policy of failover. ============================================================= +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, cpu, oom_adj score, and +name. This is helpful to determine why the OOM killer was invoked +and to identify the rogue task that caused it. + +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 +the memory state information for each one. Such systems should not +be forced to incur a performance penalty in OOM conditions when the +information may not be desired. + +If this is set to non-zero, this information is shown whenever the +OOM killer actually kills a memory-hogging task. + +The default value is 0. + +============================================================= + oom_kill_allocating_task This enables or disables killing the OOM-triggering task in |
