X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ffilesystems%2Fproc.txt;h=9d626596d5b4ca647e5e913880052ac170eb29e1;hb=9bf4aaab3e101692164d49b7ca357651eb691cb6;hp=bc552015b66b047be5247eb203d17ed69aebe143;hpb=db216c3d5e4c040e557a50f8f5d35d5c415e8c1c;p=linux-2.6.git diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index bc552015b..9d626596d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ Table 1-3: Kernel info in /proc 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) @@ -1115,6 +1115,18 @@ program to load modules on demand. 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 ---------------------- @@ -1220,6 +1232,18 @@ nr_hugepages configures number of hugetlb page reserved for the system. 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 ---------------------------------------------- @@ -1640,7 +1664,8 @@ flush 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