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| author | Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org> | 2012-10-08 16:29:30 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-10-09 16:22:24 +0900 |
| commit | 01dc52ebdf472f77cca623ca693ca24cfc0f1bbe (patch) | |
| tree | 2d0f35f2aff418d52a84fb50974ad3bacf68d4bd /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | d5dc0ad928fb9e972001e552597fd0b794863f34 (diff) | |
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oom: remove deprecated oom_adj
The deprecated /proc/<pid>/oom_adj is scheduled for removal this month.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 22 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index fb0a6aeb936..a1793d670cd 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Table of Contents 2 Modifying System Parameters 3 Per-Process Parameters - 3.1 /proc/<pid>/oom_adj & /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj - Adjust the oom-killer + 3.1 /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj - Adjust the oom-killer score 3.2 /proc/<pid>/oom_score - Display current oom-killer score 3.3 /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields @@ -1320,10 +1320,10 @@ of the kernel. CHAPTER 3: PER-PROCESS PARAMETERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -3.1 /proc/<pid>/oom_adj & /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj- Adjust the oom-killer score +3.1 /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj- Adjust the oom-killer score -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -These file can be used to adjust the badness heuristic used to select which +This file can be used to adjust the badness heuristic used to select which process gets killed in out of memory conditions. The badness heuristic assigns a value to each candidate task ranging from 0 @@ -1361,22 +1361,10 @@ same system, cpuset, mempolicy, or memory controller resources to use at least equivalent to discounting 50% of the task's allowed memory from being considered as scoring against the task. -For backwards compatibility with previous kernels, /proc/<pid>/oom_adj may also -be used to tune the badness score. Its acceptable values range from -16 -(OOM_ADJUST_MIN) to +15 (OOM_ADJUST_MAX) and a special value of -17 -(OOM_DISABLE) to disable oom killing entirely for that task. Its value is -scaled linearly with /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj. - -Writing to /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj or /proc/<pid>/oom_adj will change the -other with its scaled value. - The value of /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj may be reduced no lower than the last value set by a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE process. To reduce the value any lower requires CAP_SYS_RESOURCE. -NOTICE: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj is deprecated and will be removed, please see -Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt. - Caveat: when a parent task is selected, the oom killer will sacrifice any first generation children with separate address spaces instead, if possible. This avoids servers and important system daemons from being killed and loses the @@ -1387,9 +1375,7 @@ minimal amount of work. ------------------------------------------------------------- This file can be used to check the current score used by the oom-killer is for -any given <pid>. Use it together with /proc/<pid>/oom_adj to tune which -process should be killed in an out-of-memory situation. - +any given <pid>. 3.3 /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields ------------------------------------------------------- |