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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.

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  • zone_reclaim_mode
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