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author | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2010-12-22 18:57:02 +0100 |
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committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2010-12-22 18:57:02 +0100 |
commit | 4b7bd364700d9ac8372eff48832062b936d0793b (patch) | |
tree | 0dbf78c95456a0b02d07fcd473281f04a87e266d /Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-pid-oom_adj | |
parent | c0d8768af260e2cbb4bf659ae6094a262c86b085 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-pid-oom_adj b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-pid-oom_adj new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..cf63f264ce0f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-pid-oom_adj @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +What: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj +When: August 2012 +Why: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj allows userspace to influence the oom killer's + badness heuristic used to determine which task to kill when the kernel + is out of memory. + + The badness heuristic has since been rewritten since the introduction of + this tunable such that its meaning is deprecated. The value was + implemented as a bitshift on a score generated by the badness() + function that did not have any precise units of measure. With the + rewrite, the score is given as a proportion of available memory to the + task allocating pages, so using a bitshift which grows the score + exponentially is, thus, impossible to tune with fine granularity. + + A much more powerful interface, /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj, was + introduced with the oom killer rewrite that allows users to increase or + decrease the badness() score linearly. This interface will replace + /proc/<pid>/oom_adj. + + A warning will be emitted to the kernel log if an application uses this + deprecated interface. After it is printed once, future warnings will be + suppressed until the kernel is rebooted. |