On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Add descriptions for /proc/sys/vm/swappiness. > > Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> Thanks! Applied for man-pages-3.20. Cheers, Michael > --- > diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5 > index 48c103a..c74d7f7 100644 > --- a/man5/proc.5 > +++ b/man5/proc.5 > @@ -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; > > > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
