From c0c4d62ae4eeffd86d1ecc04cf0a89c1fda773e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Machek Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:31:28 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 70796 b: refs/heads/master c: 24950898ffd161f2ea67c60f398146457bca8bf0 h: refs/heads/master v: v3 --- [refs] | 2 +- trunk/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs] index 6e7033cbe0ab..ed71d5ac7d92 100644 --- a/[refs] +++ b/[refs] @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ --- -refs/heads/master: f4e875704d8ebf0323235e635e666432f097ae42 +refs/heads/master: 24950898ffd161f2ea67c60f398146457bca8bf0 diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/trunk/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 17346da636e7..b89570c30434 100644 --- a/trunk/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/trunk/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -112,6 +112,12 @@ of kilobytes free. The VM uses this number to compute a pages_min value for each lowmem zone in the system. Each lowmem zone gets a number of reserved free pages based proportionally on its size. +Some minimal ammount of memory is needed to satisfy PF_MEMALLOC +allocations; if you set this to lower than 1024KB, your system will +become subtly broken, and prone to deadlock under high loads. + +Setting this too high will OOM your machine instantly. + ============================================================== percpu_pagelist_fraction