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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index c4de6359d440..e6fb1ec2744b 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. ============================================================== |