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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 17346da636e7..b89570c30434 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/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 |