From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Am=C3=A9rico?= Wang Subject: [Patch] describe 'swappiness' for proc(5) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:46:47 +0800 Message-ID: <20090320034647.GC14567@hack> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Add descriptions for /proc/sys/vm/swappiness. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong --- 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; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html