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| author | Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com> | 2009-07-05 09:32:44 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2009-09-15 12:01:26 -0700 |
| commit | 272bb3d8759448b2017aee149d226d7bf2d2bbb7 (patch) | |
| tree | 63f3b9a5c052a8f903a3cd95fcd94297c62b5663 /drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c | |
| parent | edd540ea92954f896bfb7ee0ebf5dfdde6e6cb41 (diff) | |
Staging: android: lowmemorykiller: delete the decription file
Move the lowmemorykiller.txt into the actual source file which is really the
correct place for it, and delete lowmemorykiller.txt.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Cc: Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c b/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c index fb066a3e17f..f13c6fc76c4 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c +++ b/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c @@ -1,5 +1,21 @@ /* drivers/misc/lowmemorykiller.c * + * The lowmemorykiller driver lets user-space specify a set of memory thresholds + * where processes with a range of oom_adj values will get killed. Specify the + * minimum oom_adj values in /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/adj and the + * number of free pages in /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/minfree. Both + * files take a comma separated list of numbers in ascending order. + * + * For example, write "0,8" to /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/adj and + * "1024,4096" to /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/minfree to kill processes + * with a oom_adj value of 8 or higher when the free memory drops below 4096 pages + * and kill processes with a oom_adj value of 0 or higher when the free memory + * drops below 1024 pages. + * + * The driver considers memory used for caches to be free, but if a large + * percentage of the cached memory is locked this can be very inaccurate + * and processes may not get killed until the normal oom killer is triggered. + * * Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Google, Inc. * * This software is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public |