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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 34a5fece3121..720355cbdf45 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - panic_on_oom - percpu_pagelist_fraction - stat_interval +- stat_refresh - swappiness - user_reserve_kbytes - vfs_cache_pressure @@ -755,6 +756,19 @@ is 1 second. ============================================================== +stat_refresh + +Any read or write (by root only) flushes all the per-cpu vm statistics +into their global totals, for more accurate reports when testing +e.g. cat /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh /proc/meminfo + +As a side-effect, it also checks for negative totals (elsewhere reported +as 0) and "fails" with EINVAL if any are found, with a warning in dmesg. +(At time of writing, a few stats are known sometimes to be found negative, +with no ill effects: errors and warnings on these stats are suppressed.) + +============================================================== + swappiness This control is used to define how aggressive the kernel will swap |