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describe 'swappiness' for proc(5)

PATCH In review Américo Wang 2 participants 2 messages Mar 20, 2009 – Mar 29, 2009 Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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PATCH 1/1 describe 'swappiness' for proc(5)

Add descriptions for /proc/sys/vm/swappiness.

Signed-off-by WANG Cong <[email protected]>

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man5/proc.5 +8 -0
index 48c103a..c74d7f7 100644
@@ -2382,6 +2382,14 @@ user should run
 .BR sync (8)
 first.
 .TP
+.IR /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
+.\" The following is from Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+This control is used to define how aggressive the kernel will swap
+memory pages.  Higher values will increase agressiveness, lower values
+descrease the amount of swap.
+
+The default value is 60.
+.TP
 .IR /proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout " (since Linux 2.6.9)"
 .\" The following is from Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
 If non-zero, this disables the new 32-bit memory-mapping layout;

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Quoted 4 lines · Américo Wang

Add descriptions for /proc/sys/vm/swappiness.

Signed-off-by WANG Cong <[email protected]>

Thanks! Applied for man-pages-3.20.

Cheers,

Michael

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man5/proc.5 +0 -0
index 48c103a..c74d7f7 100644
@@ -2382,6 +2382,14 @@ user should run
  .BR sync (8)

 first.
 .TP
+.IR /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
+.\" The following is from Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt

man5/proc.5 +6 -0
+This control is used to define how aggressive the kernel will swap
+memory pages.  Higher values will increase agressiveness, lower values
+descrease the amount of swap.
+
+The default value is 60.
+.TP

 .IR /proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout " (since Linux 2.6.9)" .\" The following is from Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt If non-zero, this disables the new 32-bit memory-mapping layout;

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