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Home » The /proc filesystem documentation » /proc/sys

/proc/sys/vm

Submitted by admin on Wed, 2006-05-31 15:46

The files in this directory can be used to tune the operation of the virtual memory (VM) subsystem of the Linux kernel and the writeout of dirty data to disk.

  • block_dump
  • dirty_background_bytes
  • dirty_background_ratio
  • dirty_bytes
  • dirty_expire_centisecs
  • dirty_ratio
  • dirty_writeback_centisecs
  • drop_caches
  • highmem_is_dirtyable
  • hugepages_treat_as_movable
  • hugetlb_shm_group
  • laptop_mode
  • legacy_va_layout
  • lowmem_reserve_ratio
  • max_map_count
  • min_free_kbytes
  • min_slab_ratio
  • min_unmapped_ratio
  • mmap_min_addr
  • nr_hugepages
  • nr_overcommit_hugepages
  • nr_pdflush_threads
  • nr_trim_pages
  • numa_zonelist_order
  • oom_dump_tasks
  • oom_kill_allocating_task
  • overcommit_memory
  • overcommit_ratio
  • page-cluster
  • panic_on_oom
  • percpu_pagelist_fraction
  • scan_unevictable_pages
  • stat_interval
  • swap_token_timeout
  • swappiness
  • vdso_enabled
  • vfs_cache_pressure
  • zone_reclaim_mode
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