X-Git-Url: http://git.efficios.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ffilesystems%2Fproc.txt;h=8d6590d5f35d61e97ea47503b10bf1714fb14c7c;hb=2fe0ae78c6975d6fa2fc0c84f2b8944543054105;hp=a4dcf42c2fd93f1e1177aad2abe567030ecbcdde;hpb=9d0243bca345d5ce25d3f4b74b7facb3a6df1232;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index a4dcf42c2fd9..8d6590d5f35d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ Table of Contents 2.9 Appletalk 2.10 IPX 2.11 /proc/sys/fs/mqueue - POSIX message queues filesystem + 2.12 /proc//oom_adj - Adjust the oom-killer score + 2.13 /proc//oom_score - Display current oom-killer score ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Preface @@ -121,7 +123,7 @@ Table 1-1: Process specific entries in /proc .............................................................................. File Content cmdline Command line arguments - cpu Current and last cpu in wich it was executed (2.4)(smp) + cpu Current and last cpu in which it was executed (2.4)(smp) cwd Link to the current working directory environ Values of environment variables exe Link to the executable of this process @@ -309,13 +311,13 @@ is the same by default: > cat /proc/irq/0/smp_affinity ffffffff -It's a bitmask, in wich you can specify wich CPUs can handle the IRQ, you can +It's a bitmask, in which you can specify which CPUs can handle the IRQ, you can set it by doing: > echo 1 > /proc/irq/prof_cpu_mask This means that only the first CPU will handle the IRQ, but you can also echo 5 -wich means that only the first and fourth CPU can handle the IRQ. +which means that only the first and fourth CPU can handle the IRQ. The way IRQs are routed is handled by the IO-APIC, and it's Round Robin between all the CPUs which are allowed to handle it. As usual the kernel has @@ -408,7 +410,7 @@ VmallocChunk: 111088 kB this memory, making it slower to access than lowmem. LowTotal: LowFree: Lowmem is memory which can be used for everything that - highmem can be used for, but it is also availble for the + highmem can be used for, but it is also available for the kernel's use for its own data structures. Among many other things, it is where everything from the Slab is allocated. Bad things happen when you're out of lowmem. @@ -418,7 +420,7 @@ VmallocChunk: 111088 kB Dirty: Memory which is waiting to get written back to the disk Writeback: Memory which is actively being written back to the disk Mapped: files which have been mmaped, such as libraries - Slab: in-kernel data structures cache + Slab: in-kernel data structures cache CommitLimit: Based on the overcommit ratio ('vm.overcommit_ratio'), this is the total amount of memory currently available to be allocated on the system. This limit is only adhered to @@ -1124,11 +1126,15 @@ debugging information is displayed on console. NMI switch that most IA32 servers have fires unknown NMI up, for example. If a system hangs up, try pressing the NMI switch. -[NOTE] - This function and oprofile share a NMI callback. Therefore this function - cannot be enabled when oprofile is activated. - And NMI watchdog will be disabled when the value in this file is set to - non-zero. +nmi_watchdog +------------ + +Enables/Disables the NMI watchdog on x86 systems. When the value is non-zero +the NMI watchdog is enabled and will continuously test all online cpus to +determine whether or not they are still functioning properly. + +Because the NMI watchdog shares registers with oprofile, by disabling the NMI +watchdog, oprofile may have more registers to utilize. 2.4 /proc/sys/vm - The virtual memory subsystem @@ -1582,7 +1588,7 @@ Enable the strict RFC793 interpretation of the TCP urgent pointer field. The default is to use the BSD compatible interpretation of the urgent pointer pointing to the first byte after the urgent data. The RFC793 interpretation is to have it point to the last byte of urgent data. Enabling this option may -lead to interoperatibility problems. Disabled by default. +lead to interoperability problems. Disabled by default. tcp_syncookies -------------- @@ -1958,6 +1964,22 @@ a queue must be less or equal then msg_max. maximum message size value (it is every message queue's attribute set during its creation). +2.12 /proc//oom_adj - Adjust the oom-killer score +------------------------------------------------------ + +This file can be used to adjust the score used to select which processes +should be killed in an out-of-memory situation. Giving it a high score will +increase the likelihood of this process being killed by the oom-killer. Valid +values are in the range -16 to +15, plus the special value -17, which disables +oom-killing altogether for this process. + +2.13 /proc//oom_score - Display current oom-killer score +------------------------------------------------------------- + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +This file can be used to check the current score used by the oom-killer is for +any given . Use it together with /proc//oom_adj to tune which +process should be killed in an out-of-memory situation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Summary