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| author | Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net> | 2006-06-26 01:31:38 -0400 |
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| committer | Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net> | 2006-06-26 01:31:38 -0400 |
| commit | 4854c7b27f0975a2b629f35ea3996d2968eb7c4f (patch) | |
| tree | 4102bdb70289764a2058aff0f907b13d7cf0e0d1 /Documentation/sysctl | |
| parent | 3cbd5b32cb625f5c0f1b1476d154fac873dd49ce (diff) | |
| parent | fcc18e83e1f6fd9fa6b333735bf0fcd530655511 (diff) | |
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Merge rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index a46c10fcddfc..2dc246af4885 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - drop-caches - zone_reclaim_mode - zone_reclaim_interval +- panic_on_oom ============================================================== @@ -178,3 +179,15 @@ Time is set in seconds and set by default to 30 seconds. Reduce the interval if undesired off node allocations occur. However, too frequent scans will have a negative impact onoff node allocation performance. +============================================================= + +panic_on_oom + +This enables or disables panic on out-of-memory feature. If this is set to 1, +the kernel panics when out-of-memory happens. If this is set to 0, the kernel +will kill some rogue process, called oom_killer. Usually, oom_killer can kill +rogue processes and system will survive. If you want to panic the system +rather than killing rogue processes, set this to 1. + +The default value is 0. + |
