Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:17:10 -0700 | From | Dave Hansen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/6] add documentation on proc.txt |
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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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