From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> The exported value includes oom_score_adj so the range is no [0, 1000] as described in the previous section but rather [0, 2000]. Mention that fact explicitly. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst index 8e3b5dffcfa8..78a0dec323a3 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst @@ -1673,6 +1673,9 @@ requires CAP_SYS_RESOURCE. 3.2 /proc/<pid>/oom_score - Display current oom-killer score ------------------------------------------------------------- +Please note that the exported value includes oom_score_adj so it is effectively +in range [0,2000]. + This file can be used to check the current score used by the oom-killer is for any given <pid>. Use it together with /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj to tune which process should be killed in an out-of-memory situation. -- 2.27.0
