From: Nadia Derbey Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:35:59 +0000 (-0700) Subject: ipc: document the new auto_msgmni proc file X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27-rc6~61 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=61e55d0576d0e7eb4fecaeb25b3618e035de5be1;p=linux-2.6 ipc: document the new auto_msgmni proc file Update Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: it describes the file auto_msgmni intoduced to enable/disable msgmni automatic recomputing upon memory add/remove (see thread http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/4/27). Also added a description for msgmni (this filex is only listed in Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt). Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 64557821ee..394eb2cc1c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1339,6 +1339,25 @@ Enables/Disables the protection of the per-process proc entries "maps" and "smaps". When enabled, the contents of these files are visible only to readers that are allowed to ptrace() the given process. +msgmni +------ + +Maximum number of message queue ids on the system. +This value scales to the amount of lowmem. It is automatically recomputed +upon memory add/remove or ipc namespace creation/removal. +When a value is written into this file, msgmni's value becomes fixed, i.e. it +is not recomputed anymore when one of the above events occurs. +Use auto_msgmni to change this behavior. + +auto_msgmni +----------- + +Enables/Disables automatic recomputing of msgmni upon memory add/remove or +upon ipc namespace creation/removal (see the msgmni description above). +Echoing "1" into this file enables msgmni automatic recomputing. +Echoing "0" turns it off. +auto_msgmni default value is 1. + 2.4 /proc/sys/vm - The virtual memory subsystem -----------------------------------------------