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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 22 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index 1c7fb0a94e28..704e474a93df 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel: - rtsig-nr - sem - sg-big-buff [ generic SCSI device (sg) ] +- shm_rmid_forced - shmall - shmmax [ sysv ipc ] - shmmni @@ -518,6 +519,27 @@ kernel. This value defaults to SHMMAX. ============================================================== +shm_rmid_forced: + +Linux lets you set resource limits, including how much memory one +process can consume, via setrlimit(2). Unfortunately, shared memory +segments are allowed to exist without association with any process, and +thus might not be counted against any resource limits. If enabled, +shared memory segments are automatically destroyed when their attach +count becomes zero after a detach or a process termination. It will +also destroy segments that were created, but never attached to, on exit +from the process. The only use left for IPC_RMID is to immediately +destroy an unattached segment. Of course, this breaks the way things are +defined, so some applications might stop working. Note that this +feature will do you no good unless you also configure your resource +limits (in particular, RLIMIT_AS and RLIMIT_NPROC). Most systems don't +need this. + +Note that if you change this from 0 to 1, already created segments +without users and with a dead originative process will be destroyed. + +============================================================== + softlockup_thresh: This value can be used to lower the softlockup tolerance threshold. The |