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@@ -112,6 +112,12 @@ of kilobytes free. The VM uses this number to compute a pages_min
112value for each lowmem zone in the system. Each lowmem zone gets 112value for each lowmem zone in the system. Each lowmem zone gets
113a number of reserved free pages based proportionally on its size. 113a number of reserved free pages based proportionally on its size.
114 114
115Some minimal ammount of memory is needed to satisfy PF_MEMALLOC
116allocations; if you set this to lower than 1024KB, your system will
117become subtly broken, and prone to deadlock under high loads.
118
119Setting this too high will OOM your machine instantly.
120
115============================================================== 121==============================================================
116 122
117percpu_pagelist_fraction 123percpu_pagelist_fraction