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SubjectRe: [PATCH 6/6] add documentation on proc.txt
On 04/22/2013 01:45 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> +The /proc/PID/reclaim is used to reclaim pages in this process.
> +To reclaim file-backed pages,
> + > echo 1 > /proc/PID/reclaim
> +
> +To reclaim anonymous pages,
> + > echo 2 > /proc/PID/reclaim
> +
> +To reclaim both pages,
> + > echo 3 > /proc/PID/reclaim

This seems to be in the same spirit as /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. That's
not a sin in and of itself. But, why use numbers here?

Any chance I could talk you in to using some strings, say like:

echo 'anonymous' > /proc/PID/reclaim
echo 'anonymous|file' > /proc/PID/reclaim




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