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@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
- block_dump
- drop-caches
- zone_reclaim_mode
+- min_unmapped_ratio
- panic_on_oom
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@@ -168,6 +169,19 @@ in all nodes of the system.
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+min_unmapped_ratio:
+
+This is available only on NUMA kernels.
+
+A percentage of the file backed pages in each zone. Zone reclaim will only
+occur if more than this percentage of pages are file backed and unmapped.
+This is to insure that a minimal amount of local pages is still available for
+file I/O even if the node is overallocated.
+
+The default is 1 percent.
+
+=============================================================
+
panic_on_oom
This enables or disables panic on out-of-memory feature. If this is set to 1,