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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 14 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 86754eb390d..7cee90223d3 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - block_dump - drop-caches - zone_reclaim_mode +- min_unmapped_ratio - panic_on_oom ============================================================== @@ -168,6 +169,19 @@ in all nodes of the system. ============================================================= +min_unmapped_ratio: + +This is available only on NUMA kernels. + +A percentage of the file backed pages in each zone. Zone reclaim will only +occur if more than this percentage of pages are file backed and unmapped. +This is to insure that a minimal amount of local pages is still available for +file I/O even if the node is overallocated. + +The default is 1 percent. + +============================================================= + panic_on_oom This enables or disables panic on out-of-memory feature. If this is set to 1, |