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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt')
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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 9baf66a9ef4e..5025ff9307e6 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - percpu_pagelist_fraction - stat_interval - stat_refresh +- numa_stat - swappiness - user_reserve_kbytes - vfs_cache_pressure @@ -622,7 +623,7 @@ oom_dump_tasks Enables a system-wide task dump (excluding kernel threads) to be produced when the kernel performs an OOM-killing and includes such information as -pid, uid, tgid, vm size, rss, nr_ptes, nr_pmds, swapents, oom_score_adj +pid, uid, tgid, vm size, rss, pgtables_bytes, swapents, oom_score_adj score, and name. This is helpful to determine why the OOM killer was invoked, to identify the rogue task that caused it, and to determine why the OOM killer chose the task it did to kill. @@ -792,10 +793,25 @@ with no ill effects: errors and warnings on these stats are suppressed.) ============================================================== +numa_stat + +This interface allows runtime configuration of numa statistics. + +When page allocation performance becomes a bottleneck and you can tolerate +some possible tool breakage and decreased numa counter precision, you can +do: + echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/numa_stat + +When page allocation performance is not a bottleneck and you want all +tooling to work, you can do: + echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/numa_stat + +============================================================== + swappiness This control is used to define how aggressive the kernel will swap -memory pages. Higher values will increase agressiveness, lower values +memory pages. Higher values will increase aggressiveness, lower values decrease the amount of swap. A value of 0 instructs the kernel not to initiate swap until the amount of free and file-backed pages is less than the high water mark in a zone. |