From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: [PATCH] vm: Document that setting vfs_cache_pressure to 0 isn't a good idea
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:57:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1247763449-22360-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> (raw)
Reported-by: Christian Thaeter <ct@pipapo.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
Andrew, would you merge this please? Thanks.
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index c4de635..76e8671 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -585,7 +585,9 @@ 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
+to retain dentry and inode caches. When vfs_cache_pressure=0, the kernel will
+never reclaim dentries and inodes due to memory pressure and this can easily
+lead to out-of-memory conditions. Increasing vfs_cache_pressure beyond 100
causes the kernel to prefer to reclaim dentries and inodes.
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1.6.0.2
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