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author | Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org> | 2012-10-08 19:29:30 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-10-09 03:22:24 -0400 |
commit | 01dc52ebdf472f77cca623ca693ca24cfc0f1bbe (patch) | |
tree | 2d0f35f2aff418d52a84fb50974ad3bacf68d4bd /Documentation/filesystems | |
parent | d5dc0ad928fb9e972001e552597fd0b794863f34 (diff) |
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 fb0a6aeb936c..a1793d670cd0 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |||
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Table of Contents | |||
33 | 2 Modifying System Parameters | 33 | 2 Modifying System Parameters |
34 | 34 | ||
35 | 3 Per-Process Parameters | 35 | 3 Per-Process Parameters |
36 | 3.1 /proc/<pid>/oom_adj & /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj - Adjust the oom-killer | 36 | 3.1 /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj - Adjust the oom-killer |
37 | score | 37 | score |
38 | 3.2 /proc/<pid>/oom_score - Display current oom-killer score | 38 | 3.2 /proc/<pid>/oom_score - Display current oom-killer score |
39 | 3.3 /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields | 39 | 3.3 /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields |
@@ -1320,10 +1320,10 @@ of the kernel. | |||
1320 | CHAPTER 3: PER-PROCESS PARAMETERS | 1320 | CHAPTER 3: PER-PROCESS PARAMETERS |
1321 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 1321 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
1322 | 1322 | ||
1323 | 3.1 /proc/<pid>/oom_adj & /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj- Adjust the oom-killer score | 1323 | 3.1 /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj- Adjust the oom-killer score |
1324 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 1324 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
1325 | 1325 | ||
1326 | These file can be used to adjust the badness heuristic used to select which | 1326 | This file can be used to adjust the badness heuristic used to select which |
1327 | process gets killed in out of memory conditions. | 1327 | process gets killed in out of memory conditions. |
1328 | 1328 | ||
1329 | The badness heuristic assigns a value to each candidate task ranging from 0 | 1329 | 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 | |||
1361 | equivalent to discounting 50% of the task's allowed memory from being considered | 1361 | equivalent to discounting 50% of the task's allowed memory from being considered |
1362 | as scoring against the task. | 1362 | as scoring against the task. |
1363 | 1363 | ||
1364 | For backwards compatibility with previous kernels, /proc/<pid>/oom_adj may also | ||
1365 | be used to tune the badness score. Its acceptable values range from -16 | ||
1366 | (OOM_ADJUST_MIN) to +15 (OOM_ADJUST_MAX) and a special value of -17 | ||
1367 | (OOM_DISABLE) to disable oom killing entirely for that task. Its value is | ||
1368 | scaled linearly with /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj. | ||
1369 | |||
1370 | Writing to /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj or /proc/<pid>/oom_adj will change the | ||
1371 | other with its scaled value. | ||
1372 | |||
1373 | The value of /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj may be reduced no lower than the last | 1364 | The value of /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj may be reduced no lower than the last |
1374 | value set by a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE process. To reduce the value any lower | 1365 | value set by a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE process. To reduce the value any lower |
1375 | requires CAP_SYS_RESOURCE. | 1366 | requires CAP_SYS_RESOURCE. |
1376 | 1367 | ||
1377 | NOTICE: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj is deprecated and will be removed, please see | ||
1378 | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt. | ||
1379 | |||
1380 | Caveat: when a parent task is selected, the oom killer will sacrifice any first | 1368 | Caveat: when a parent task is selected, the oom killer will sacrifice any first |
1381 | generation children with separate address spaces instead, if possible. This | 1369 | generation children with separate address spaces instead, if possible. This |
1382 | avoids servers and important system daemons from being killed and loses the | 1370 | avoids servers and important system daemons from being killed and loses the |
@@ -1387,9 +1375,7 @@ minimal amount of work. | |||
1387 | ------------------------------------------------------------- | 1375 | ------------------------------------------------------------- |
1388 | 1376 | ||
1389 | This file can be used to check the current score used by the oom-killer is for | 1377 | This file can be used to check the current score used by the oom-killer is for |
1390 | any given <pid>. Use it together with /proc/<pid>/oom_adj to tune which | 1378 | any given <pid>. |
1391 | process should be killed in an out-of-memory situation. | ||
1392 | |||
1393 | 1379 | ||
1394 | 3.3 /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields | 1380 | 3.3 /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields |
1395 | ------------------------------------------------------- | 1381 | ------------------------------------------------------- |