[PATCH 06/10] Staging: android: Add lowmemorykiller documentation.

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-01-28T23:31:24Z

From: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>

Signed-off-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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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.
+
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1.6.0.2