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| author | Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> | 2009-09-23 03:49:27 +0400 |
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| committer | Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> | 2009-09-23 03:49:27 +0400 |
| commit | f056878332a91ed984a116bad4e7d49aefff9e6e (patch) | |
| tree | 572f4757c8e7811d45e0be0c2ae529c78fb63441 /Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | |
| parent | 3961f7c3cf247eee5df7fabadc7a40f2deeb98f3 (diff) | |
| parent | 7fa07729e439a6184bd824746d06a49cca553f15 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/power/wm97xx_battery.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index c4de6359d440..e6fb1ec2744b 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -585,7 +585,9 @@ caching of directory and inode objects. At the default value of vfs_cache_pressure=100 the kernel will attempt to reclaim dentries and inodes at a "fair" rate with respect to pagecache and swapcache reclaim. Decreasing vfs_cache_pressure causes the kernel to prefer -to retain dentry and inode caches. Increasing vfs_cache_pressure beyond 100 +to retain dentry and inode caches. When vfs_cache_pressure=0, the kernel will +never reclaim dentries and inodes due to memory pressure and this can easily +lead to out-of-memory conditions. Increasing vfs_cache_pressure beyond 100 causes the kernel to prefer to reclaim dentries and inodes. ============================================================== |