From a7c293ae7661cf02aa0afee4f04de2a17871e294 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Arve=20Hj=C3=B8nnev=C3=A5g?= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:54:16 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 130456 b: refs/heads/master c: 191805ac41a63929003faa33365027d3fb924d71 h: refs/heads/master v: v3 --- [refs] | 2 +- .../drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 trunk/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs] index 53396a32e217..109e15bd2052 100644 --- a/[refs] +++ b/[refs] @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ --- -refs/heads/master: 07960058f0ce77ddc3027d3e45a5de1fb977334f +refs/heads/master: 191805ac41a63929003faa33365027d3fb924d71 diff --git a/trunk/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt b/trunk/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..bd5c0c028968 --- /dev/null +++ b/trunk/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +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. +