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author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2009-01-08 06:24:38 +0100 |
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committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2009-01-08 06:24:38 +0100 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 71df353e367c..d105eb45282a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ Table 1-1: Process specific entries in /proc statm Process memory status information status Process status in human readable form wchan If CONFIG_KALLSYMS is set, a pre-decoded wchan + stack Report full stack trace, enable via CONFIG_STACKTRACE smaps Extension based on maps, the rss size for each mapped file .............................................................................. @@ -1385,6 +1386,15 @@ swapcache reclaim. Decreasing vfs_cache_pressure causes the kernel to prefer to retain dentry and inode caches. Increasing vfs_cache_pressure beyond 100 causes the kernel to prefer to reclaim dentries and inodes. +dirty_background_bytes +---------------------- + +Contains the amount of dirty memory at which the pdflush background writeback +daemon will start writeback. + +If dirty_background_bytes is written, dirty_background_ratio becomes a function +of its value (dirty_background_bytes / the amount of dirtyable system memory). + dirty_background_ratio ---------------------- @@ -1393,14 +1403,29 @@ pages + file cache, not including locked pages and HugePages), the number of pages at which the pdflush background writeback daemon will start writing out dirty data. +If dirty_background_ratio is written, dirty_background_bytes becomes a function +of its value (dirty_background_ratio * the amount of dirtyable system memory). + +dirty_bytes +----------- + +Contains the amount of dirty memory at which a process generating disk writes +will itself start writeback. + +If dirty_bytes is written, dirty_ratio becomes a function of its value +(dirty_bytes / the amount of dirtyable system memory). + dirty_ratio ------------------ +----------- Contains, as a percentage of the dirtyable system memory (free pages + mapped pages + file cache, not including locked pages and HugePages), the number of pages at which a process which is generating disk writes will itself start writing out dirty data. +If dirty_ratio is written, dirty_bytes becomes a function of its value +(dirty_ratio * the amount of dirtyable system memory). + dirty_writeback_centisecs ------------------------- |