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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt')
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 5fdbb612aeb8..30289fab86eb 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -80,8 +80,10 @@ dirty_background_bytes Contains the amount of dirty memory at which the pdflush background writeback daemon will start writeback. -If dirty_background_bytes is written, dirty_background_ratio becomes a function -of its value (dirty_background_bytes / the amount of dirtyable system memory). +Note: dirty_background_bytes is the counterpart of dirty_background_ratio. Only +one of them may be specified at a time. When one sysctl is written it is +immediately taken into account to evaluate the dirty memory limits and the +other appears as 0 when read. ============================================================== @@ -97,8 +99,10 @@ dirty_bytes Contains the amount of dirty memory at which a process generating disk writes 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: dirty_bytes is the counterpart of dirty_ratio. Only one of them may be +specified at a time. When one sysctl is written it is immediately taken into +account to evaluate the dirty memory limits and the other appears as 0 when +read. 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 @@ -196,7 +200,7 @@ controlled by this knob are discussed in Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt. legacy_va_layout -If non-zero, this sysctl disables the new 32-bit mmap mmap layout - the kernel +If non-zero, this sysctl disables the new 32-bit mmap layout - the kernel will use the legacy (2.4) layout for all processes. ============================================================== @@ -511,7 +515,7 @@ 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. +The default value is 1 (enabled). ============================================================== |