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| author | Frederic Weisbecker | 2009-10-18 01:09:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Frederic Weisbecker | 2009-10-18 01:12:33 +0200 |
| commit | 0f8f86c7bdd1c954fbe153af437a0d91a6c5721a (patch) | |
| tree | 94a8d419a470a4f9852ca397bb9bbe48db92ff5c /drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt | |
| parent | Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-breakpoints (diff) | |
| parent | perf tools: Move dereference after NULL test (diff) | |
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Merge commit 'perf/core' into perf/hw-breakpoint
Conflicts:
kernel/Makefile
kernel/trace/Makefile
kernel/trace/trace.h
samples/Makefile
Merge reason: We need to be uptodate with the perf events development
branch because we plan to rewrite the breakpoints API on top of
perf events.
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt')
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1 files changed, 0 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt b/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt deleted file mode 100644 index bd5c0c028968..000000000000 --- a/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ -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. - |