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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 9f5481bdc5a..d614a9b6a28 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -696,7 +696,9 @@ swappiness This control is used to define how aggressive the kernel will swap memory pages. Higher values will increase agressiveness, lower values -decrease the amount of swap. +decrease the amount of swap. A value of 0 instructs the kernel not to +initiate swap until the amount of free and file-backed pages is less +than the high water mark in a zone. The default value is 60. |