d5ad4b5838
proc.5: 'pid_max' is a system-wide limit on number of threads and processes
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Since PIDs > /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max are not allocated, this
file thus also imposes a system-wide limit on the number of
threads and processes.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-22 08:23:26 +02:00
fda70f5bf9
proc.5: Minor rewording
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-19 11:34:11 +02:00
b5408a0f00
proc.5: spfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-19 09:54:09 +02:00
723e333ca9
proc.5: spfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-19 09:48:28 +02:00
d6681273da
proc.5: Add /proc/sys/kernel/{sched_rt_period_us,sched_rt_runtime_us}
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Reference sched(7) for an explanation of these two files
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-14 20:45:28 +02:00
d6a569788c
proc.5: wsfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-12 08:44:52 +02:00
f9f4b54c4c
proc.5: spfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-11 08:59:56 +02:00
86cf87d741
proc.5: spfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-11 08:58:02 +02:00
726663fd9d
bind.2, connect.2, create_module.2, delete_module.2, execve.2, get_robust_list.2, getpriority.2, getrusage.2, init_module.2, link.2, listen.2, mbind.2, open.2, poll.2, query_module.2, readlink.2, recv.2, remap_file_pages.2, sched_setaffinity.2, semop.2, send.2, stat.2, stime.2, syscall.2, pthread_attr_setstackaddr.3, pthread_attr_setstacksize.3, remquo.3, rtime.3, sched_getcpu.3, stpcpy.3, stpncpy.3, strcasecmp.3, system.3, fd.4, proc.5, ip.7: tstamp
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-08 11:31:12 +02:00
4d4188904a
proc.5: (Briefly) document /proc/timer_list
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Text taken from kernel commit
289f480af87e45f7a6de6ba9b4c061c2e259fe98.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-08 11:26:54 +02:00
3c4f7af609
proc.5: Document /proc/timer_stats
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-08 11:26:54 +02:00
322d49fb51
proc.5: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-05 08:26:01 +02:00
d63ff76e2a
proc.5: Improve description of /proc/stat 'intr' field
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The sum at the beginning of line "intr" includes also
unnumbered interrupts.
(Change made in kernel commit
a2eddfa95919a730e0e5ed17e9c303fe5ba249cd)
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Moskyto Matejka <mq@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-04-23 20:40:00 +02:00
e6a110ef57
proc.5: Note kernel version for /proc/sys/kernel/{msgmax,msgmnb}
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-04-17 15:38:51 +02:00
d85d2ed8e6
proc.5: Note kernel version for /proc/sys/kernel/{shmall,shmmax}
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-04-17 15:38:51 +02:00
76e0451c7d
proc.5: Document /proc/[pid]/clear_refs
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-04-12 11:37:14 +02:00
e618d945d2
proc.5: /proc/PID/smaps is present only if CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-04-12 09:20:30 +02:00
1f0add2855
proc.5: Minor tweaks to Petr Gajdos's patch
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-04-12 09:05:44 +02:00
95fe794d41
proc.5: Improve /proc/[pid]/smaps entries description
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Glued together from:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/23/362
https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/18/46
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-04-12 08:04:35 +02:00
67aac6fbce
proc.5: Document /proc/[pid]/stack
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-04-09 17:19:02 +02:00
fa1d49a63c
Removed trailing white space at end of lines
2014-04-06 08:47:56 +02:00
43a8bfc677
proc.5: srcfix: added FIXME
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-04-06 08:12:26 +02:00
b61d8f7a6d
proc.5: grfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-26 14:01:16 +01:00
f7c75128c0
proc.5: grfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-26 07:33:17 +01:00
7153dabd0e
proc.5: Document /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-17 09:02:51 +01:00
68d86eac00
proc.5: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-16 05:33:25 +01:00
e231acbc56
proc.5: Remove redundant .fi tag
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-02-10 10:18:13 +01:00
9f62685ed3
proc.5: srcfix: remove redundant .RE
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-02-10 10:11:09 +01:00
275f41e1f0
proc.5: wfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-02-10 09:59:47 +01:00
9d54c0875b
proc.5: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-02-04 10:00:13 +01:00
182673cff7
proc.5: SEE ALSO: Add some further kernel Documentation/sysctl files
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-01-31 07:03:04 +01:00
a87838117c
proc.5: spfix: American spelling
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-01-29 13:51:21 +01:00
2054f761a6
proc.5: Update discussion of wchan
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Remove crufty reference to /etc/psdatabase in /proc/PID/stat.
Add /proc/PID/wchan.
See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/manpages/+bug/737452
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-01-24 11:13:48 +01:00
1509ca0e37
proc.5: Document /proc/[pid]/timers
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-01-20 10:33:23 +01:00
f78ed33a65
madvise.2, perf_event_open.2, query_module.2, stat.2, sem_init.3, hpsa.4, rtc.4, st.4, elf.5, filesystems.5, proc.5, environ.7, man-pages.7, regex.7, units.7: Reword to avoid use of "etc."
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-01-18 23:58:39 +13:00
14d7071359
lround.3, proc.5: Reword to avoid use of "etc."
2014-01-18 23:58:12 +13:00
d35326474f
Removed trailing white space at end of lines
2014-01-11 08:04:54 +13:00
449dd4e2ab
proc.5, unix.7: grfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-01-02 11:49:16 +13:00
d102a67397
proc.5: Fix formula for CommitLimit under /proc/meminfo
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See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60991
Reported-by: <sworddragon2@aol.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-01-02 11:49:15 +13:00
8fb0ddc0e1
proc.5: Document /proc/sys/kernel/ngroups_max
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-10-18 11:33:33 +13:00
11256884de
Removed trailing white space at end of lines
2013-09-17 08:27:46 +02:00
f042d149dd
proc.5: wfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-09-04 16:27:15 +02:00
817b5ec178
proc.5: Note block size used by /proc/partitions
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See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666972
Reported-by: A. Costa <agcosta@gis.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-09-04 15:35:07 +02:00
7ab222df40
proc.5: /proc/sys/fs/inode-max went away in Linux 2.4
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Also, the 'preshrink' field in /proc/sys/fs/inode-state became
a dummy value in Linux 2.4.
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60836
Reported-by: Marko Myllynen <myllynen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-09-04 10:00:05 +02:00
ac8727b68c
proc.5: Minor wording changes in introductory paragraph
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-09-04 09:41:52 +02:00
9ee4a2b6ec
intro.1, time.1, access.2, acct.2, alloc_hugepages.2, bind.2, chdir.2, chmod.2, chown.2, chroot.2, clone.2, close.2, execve.2, fallocate.2, fcntl.2, getdents.2, getrusage.2, getxattr.2, init_module.2, inotify_add_watch.2, ioprio_set.2, kcmp.2, link.2, listxattr.2, lseek.2, madvise.2, mkdir.2, mknod.2, mmap.2, mount.2, move_pages.2, msgctl.2, nfsservctl.2, open.2, pivot_root.2, quotactl.2, read.2, readlink.2, removexattr.2, rename.2, rmdir.2, semctl.2, setfsgid.2, setfsuid.2, setresuid.2, setuid.2, setup.2, setxattr.2, shmctl.2, splice.2, spu_create.2, stat.2, statfs.2, swapon.2, symlink.2, sync.2, sync_file_range.2, sysfs.2, truncate.2, umount.2, unlink.2, unshare.2, ustat.2, utime.2, utimensat.2, write.2, btree.3, errno.3, fexecve.3, ftw.3, futimes.3, get_nprocs_conf.3, getcwd.3, getdirentries.3, getmntent.3, glob.3, mkfifo.3, mq_open.3, readdir.3, realpath.3, recno.3, remove.3, sem_open.3, shm_open.3, statvfs.3, sysconf.3, telldir.3, tmpfile.3, cciss.4, initrd.4, pts.4, sk98lin.4, vcs.4, core.5, filesystems.5, proc.5, boot.7, bootparam.7, capabilities.7, cpuset.7, credentials.7, feature_test_macros.7, fifo.7, hier.7, inotify.7, intro.7, mq_overview.7, path_resolution.7, pipe.7, sem_overview.7, shm_overview.7, spufs.7, symlink.7, unix.7, uri.7, sync.8: Global fix: s/file system/filesystem/
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Notwithstanding 24d01c530c
2013-08-08 10:07:57 +02:00
e3fb076766
proc.5: Add rationale on drop_caches and note that it can hurt performance
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See also http://lwn.net/Articles/562211/
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-08-08 09:32:02 +02:00
cb41e2e1df
proc.5: grfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-08-08 08:06:05 +02:00
41e1475c91
proc.5: Minor clarification
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-08-08 08:04:49 +02:00
aeb7e78817
proc.5: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-08-08 08:04:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk