From: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>
To: greg@kroah.com
Cc: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"Pavel Machek" <pavel@suse.cz>,
"Brian Swetland" <swetland@google.com>,
"San Mehat" <san@android.com>, "Robert Love" <rlove@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Staging: android: Add lowmemorykiller documentation.
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:54:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1231980856-30600-1-git-send-email-arve@android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090115001224.GC11328@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
---
drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt
diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt b/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bd5c0c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/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.
+
--
1.6.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-15 0:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-14 1:02 lowmemory android driver not needed? Greg KH
2009-01-14 2:18 ` Brian Swetland
2009-01-14 2:30 ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-14 3:52 ` Greg KH
2009-01-14 10:43 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-14 10:48 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-14 12:18 ` MinChan Kim
2009-01-14 22:26 ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-14 23:17 ` Greg KH
2009-01-14 23:32 ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-15 0:12 ` Greg KH
2009-01-15 0:54 ` Arve Hjønnevåg [this message]
2009-01-15 0:59 ` [PATCH] Staging: android: Add lowmemorykiller documentation Greg KH
2009-01-15 13:32 ` lowmemory android driver not needed? Trilok Soni
2009-01-15 13:32 ` Trilok Soni
2009-01-15 23:44 ` Greg KH
2009-01-15 23:44 ` Greg KH
2009-01-16 9:02 ` Paul Mundt
2009-01-16 11:16 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-16 11:16 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-16 15:23 ` Greg KH
2009-01-21 2:50 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-21 3:05 ` Paul Mundt
2009-01-21 3:29 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-04-01 18:38 ` Trilok Soni
2009-04-01 18:38 ` Trilok Soni
2009-04-01 19:33 ` David Rientjes
2009-02-03 20:55 ` Tony Lindgren
2009-02-03 20:55 ` Tony Lindgren
2009-01-16 11:42 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-16 13:18 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-22 6:13 ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-22 6:13 ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-29 1:48 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-29 2:51 ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-29 2:51 ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-29 3:45 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-01-29 3:45 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-01-29 4:27 ` Greg KH
2009-01-29 4:27 ` Greg KH
2009-01-29 4:43 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-29 4:59 ` Greg KH
2009-01-29 5:29 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-30 6:20 ` Greg KH
2009-01-30 6:41 ` Brian Swetland
2009-02-03 13:40 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-29 22:06 ` Pavel Machek
2009-02-03 14:08 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-15 7:55 ` David Rientjes
2009-01-14 6:45 ` MinChan Kim
2009-01-14 6:45 ` MinChan Kim
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