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| author | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2008-03-13 15:26:33 +1100 |
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| committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2008-03-13 15:26:33 +1100 |
| commit | bed04a4413376265746053be2a9cfbfc80c98ec9 (patch) | |
| tree | 8f582294a655f70496cd08aedeb86de31dbad140 /Documentation/controllers/memory.txt | |
| parent | e37c772e36a7943b2e0bd8f48312e78474c0df15 (diff) | |
| parent | c463be3520065ef8c05e3cbdf946c69604e91ceb (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linux-2.6'
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/controllers/memory.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/controllers/memory.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt b/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt index 6015347b41e..866b9cd9a95 100644 --- a/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt @@ -1,4 +1,8 @@ -Memory Controller +Memory Resource Controller + +NOTE: The Memory Resource Controller has been generically been referred +to as the memory controller in this document. Do not confuse memory controller +used here with the memory controller that is used in hardware. Salient features @@ -152,7 +156,7 @@ The memory controller uses the following hierarchy a. Enable CONFIG_CGROUPS b. Enable CONFIG_RESOURCE_COUNTERS -c. Enable CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_CONT +c. Enable CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 1. Prepare the cgroups # mkdir -p /cgroups @@ -164,7 +168,7 @@ c. Enable CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_CONT Since now we're in the 0 cgroup, We can alter the memory limit: -# echo -n 4M > /cgroups/0/memory.limit_in_bytes +# echo 4M > /cgroups/0/memory.limit_in_bytes NOTE: We can use a suffix (k, K, m, M, g or G) to indicate values in kilo, mega or gigabytes. @@ -185,7 +189,7 @@ number of factors, such as rounding up to page boundaries or the total availability of memory on the system. The user is required to re-read this file after a write to guarantee the value committed by the kernel. -# echo -n 1 > memory.limit_in_bytes +# echo 1 > memory.limit_in_bytes # cat memory.limit_in_bytes 4096 @@ -197,7 +201,7 @@ caches, RSS and Active pages/Inactive pages are shown. The memory.force_empty gives an interface to drop *all* charges by force. -# echo -n 1 > memory.force_empty +# echo 1 > memory.force_empty will drop all charges in cgroup. Currently, this is maintained for test. |