afraid it's still far from complete, but we hope it will be useful. As far as
we know, it is the first 'all-in-one' document about the /proc file system. It
is focused on the Intel x86 hardware, so if you are looking for PPC, ARM,
-SPARC, APX, etc., features, you probably won't find what you are looking for.
+SPARC, AXP, etc., features, you probably won't find what you are looking for.
It also only covers IPv4 networking, not IPv6 nor other protocols - sorry. But
additions and patches are welcome and will be added to this document if you
mail them to Bodo.
process memory usage. Its seven fields are explained in Table 1-2.
-Table 1-2: Contents of the statm files
+Table 1-2: Contents of the statm files (as of 2.6.8-rc3)
..............................................................................
- File Content
- size total program size
- resident size of memory portions
- shared number of pages that are shared
- trs number of pages that are 'code'
- drs number of pages of data/stack
- lrs number of pages of library
- dt number of dirty pages
+ Field Content
+ size total program size (pages) (same as VmSize in status)
+ resident size of memory portions (pages) (same as VmRSS in status)
+ shared number of pages that are shared (i.e. backed by a file)
+ trs number of pages that are 'code' (not including libs; broken,
+ includes data segment)
+ lrs number of pages of library (always 0 on 2.6)
+ drs number of pages of data/stack (including libs; broken,
+ includes library text)
+ dt number of dirty pages (always 0 on 2.6)
..............................................................................
1.2 Kernel data
devices Available devices (block and character)
dma Used DMS channels
filesystems Supported filesystems
- driver Various drivers grouped here, currently rtc (2.4)
+ driver Various drivers grouped here, currently rtc (2.4)
execdomains Execdomains, related to security (2.4)
fb Frame Buffer devices (2.4)
fs File system parameters, currently nfs/exports (2.4)
The location where the modprobe binary is located. The kernel uses this
program to load modules on demand.
+unknown_nmi_panic
+-----------------
+
+The value in this file affects behavior of handling NMI. When the value is
+non-zero, unknown NMI is trapped and then panic occurs. At that time, kernel
+debugging information is displayed on console.
+
+NMI switch that most IA32 servers have fires unknown NMI up, for example.
+If a system hangs up, try pressing the NMI switch.
+
+[NOTE]
+ This function and oprofile share a NMI callback. Therefore this function
+ cannot be enabled when oprofile is activated.
+ And NMI watchdog will be disabled when the value in this file is set to
+ non-zero.
+
+
2.4 /proc/sys/vm - The virtual memory subsystem
-----------------------------------------------
The files in this directory can be used to tune the operation of the virtual
memory (VM) subsystem of the Linux kernel.
+vfs_cache_pressure
+------------------
+
+Controls the tendency of the kernel to reclaim the memory which is used for
+caching of directory and inode objects.
+
+At the default value of vfs_cache_pressure=100 the kernel will attempt to
+reclaim dentries and inodes at a "fair" rate with respect to pagecache and
+swapcache reclaim. Decreasing vfs_cache_pressure causes the kernel to prefer
+to retain dentry and inode caches. Increasing vfs_cache_pressure beyond 100
+causes the kernel to prefer to reclaim dentries and inodes.
+
dirty_background_ratio
----------------------
Data which has been dirty in-memory for longer than this interval will be
written out next time a pdflush daemon wakes up.
+legacy_va_layout
+----------------
+
+If non-zero, this sysctl disables the new 32-bit mmap mmap layout - the kernel
+will use the legacy (2.4) layout for all processes.
+
lower_zone_protection
---------------------
hugetlb_shm_group contains group id that is allowed to create SysV shared
memory segment using hugetlb page.
+laptop_mode
+-----------
+
+laptop_mode is a knob that controls "laptop mode". All the things that are
+controlled by this knob are discussed in Documentation/laptop-mode.txt.
+
+block_dump
+----------
+
+block_dump enables block I/O debugging when set to a nonzero value. More
+information on block I/O debugging is in Documentation/laptop-mode.txt.
+
2.5 /proc/sys/dev - Device specific parameters
----------------------------------------------
Writing to this file results in a flush of the routing cache.
-gc_elastic, gc_interval, gc_min_interval, gc_tresh, gc_timeout
+gc_elasticity, gc_interval, gc_min_interval, gc_tresh, gc_timeout,
+gc_thresh, gc_thresh1, gc_thresh2, gc_thresh3
--------------------------------------------------------------
Values to control the frequency and behavior of the garbage collection
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