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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


  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-15  0:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ 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 23:44                     ` Greg KH
2009-01-16  9:02                       ` Paul Mundt
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 19:33                                 ` David Rientjes
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
2009-01-29  1:48                           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-29  2:51                             ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-29  3:45                               ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
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

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