I was looking for the a way around an OOM-problem, and found
a couple of undocumented new features for tuning the OOM-score
of individual processes. Here's a small documentation patch for
/proc/<pid>/oom_adj and /proc/<pid>/oom_score.
Signed-off-by: Jan-Frode Myklebust <[email protected]>
---
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index 99902ae..81bb8ea 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ Table of Contents
2.9 Appletalk
2.10 IPX
2.11 /proc/sys/fs/mqueue - POSIX message queues filesystem
+ 2.12 /proc/<pid>/oom_adj - Adjust the oom-killer score
+ 2.13 /proc/<pid>/oom_score - Display current oom-killer score
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Preface
@@ -1958,6 +1960,21 @@ a queue must be less or equal then msg_m
maximum message size value (it is every message queue's attribute set during
its creation).
+2.12 /proc/<pid>/oom_adj - Adjust the oom-killer score
+------------------------------------------------------
+
+This file can be used to adjust the score used to select which processes shall
+be killed in an out-of-memory situation. Giving it a high score, increase the
+likelihood of this process being killed by the oom-killer. Valid values are in
+the range [-16:15], plus the special value '-17', which defeat the oom-killer
+altogether.
+
+2.13 /proc/<pid>/oom_score - Display current oom-killer score
+-------------------------------------------------------------
+
+This file can be used to check what the current score used by the oom-killer
+is for any given <pid>. Use it together with /proc/<pid>/oom_adj to tune which
+process will be killed in an out-of-memory situation.
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