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| author | Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> | 2006-06-23 13:46:23 -0700 |
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| committer | Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> | 2006-06-23 13:46:23 -0700 |
| commit | 8cf60e04a131310199d5776e2f9e915f0c468899 (patch) | |
| tree | 373a68e88e6737713a0a5723d552cdeefffff929 /Documentation/sysctl | |
| parent | 1323523f505606cfd24af6122369afddefc3b09d (diff) | |
| parent | 95eaa5fa8eb2c345244acd5f65b200b115ae8c65 (diff) | |
Auto-update from upstream
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index a46c10fcddf..2dc246af488 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. + |