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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 055c8b3e1018..5025ff9307e6 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -158,10 +158,6 @@ Note: the minimum value allowed for dirty_bytes is two pages (in bytes); any value lower than this limit will be ignored and the old configuration will be retained. -Note: the value of dirty_bytes also must be set greater than -dirty_background_bytes or the amount of memory corresponding to -dirty_background_ratio. - ============================================================== dirty_expire_centisecs @@ -181,9 +177,6 @@ generating disk writes will itself start writing out dirty data. The total available memory is not equal to total system memory. -Note: dirty_ratio must be set greater than dirty_background_ratio or -ratio corresponding to dirty_background_bytes. - ============================================================== dirty_writeback_centisecs @@ -818,7 +811,7 @@ tooling to work, you can do: swappiness This control is used to define how aggressive the kernel will swap -memory pages. Higher values will increase agressiveness, lower values +memory pages. Higher values will increase aggressiveness, lower values decrease the amount of swap. A value of 0 instructs the kernel not to initiate swap until the amount of free and file-backed pages is less than the high water mark in a zone. |