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| author | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2009-09-22 19:54:53 (GMT) |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2009-09-22 20:01:40 (GMT) |
| commit | ae19ffbadc1b2100285a5b5b3d0a4e0a11390904 (patch) | |
| tree | 3c2086ab67398a019089a47ca3f362a4bc6db74f /drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt | |
| parent | 34e84f39a27d059a3e6ec6e8b94aafa702e6f220 (diff) | |
| parent | 9173a8ef24a6b1b8031507b35b8ffe5f85a87692 (diff) | |
| download | linux-fsl-qoriq-ae19ffbadc1b2100285a5b5b3d0a4e0a11390904.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'master' into for-linus
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diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt b/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt deleted file mode 100644 index bd5c0c0..0000000 --- a/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ -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. - |