From 55c37a840d9ec0ebed5c944355156d490b1ad5d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:01:40 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] vm: document that setting vfs_cache_pressure to 0 isn't a good idea Reported-by: Christian Thaeter Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index c4de6359d44..e6fb1ec2744 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. ==============================================================