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From: "Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
Subject: [Patch] describe 'swappiness' for proc(5)
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:46:47 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090320034647.GC14567@hack> (raw)


Add descriptions for /proc/sys/vm/swappiness.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>

---
diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index 48c103a..c74d7f7 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5
@@ -2382,6 +2382,14 @@ user should run
 .BR sync (8)
 first.
 .TP
+.IR /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
+.\" The following is from Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+This control is used to define how aggressive the kernel will swap
+memory pages.  Higher values will increase agressiveness, lower values
+descrease the amount of swap.
+
+The default value is 60.
+.TP
 .IR /proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout " (since Linux 2.6.9)"
 .\" The following is from Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
 If non-zero, this disables the new 32-bit memory-mapping layout;

 
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             reply	other threads:[~2009-03-20  3:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-20  3:46 Américo Wang [this message]
2009-03-29 22:12 ` [Patch] describe 'swappiness' for proc(5) Michael Kerrisk

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