On Sat, 30 Mar 1996 17:37:05 +0100 (MET),
Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Konig) said:
> What's the format of the /proc/sys/vm - files?
> Freepages is fairly clearly documented in the kernel sources, but I
> can't find a good description of the other files and parameters.
/proc/sys/vm/bdflush is a mirror of the parameters used by bdflush;
they are documented in linux/fs/buffer.c and in "update -h".
kswapd and swapctl will probably change in the near future as they
stabilise, so don't rely on them. That's why they aren't documented
yet!
Cheers,
Stephen.
-- Stephen Tweedie <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.