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diff --git a/man/man5/proc_pid_oom_score.5 b/man/man5/proc_pid_oom_score.5 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6849e8dce --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man5/proc_pid_oom_score.5 @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +.\" Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@yggdrasil.com> +.\" Copyright (C) 2002-2008, 2017, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +.\" Copyright (C) 2023, Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later +.\" +.TH proc_pid_oom_score 5 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +/proc/pid/oom_score \- OOM-killer score +.SH DESCRIPTION +.TP +.IR /proc/ pid /oom_score " (since Linux 2.6.11)" +.\" See mm/oom_kill.c::badness() before Linux 2.6.36 sources +.\" See mm/oom_kill.c::oom_badness() after Linux 2.6.36 +.\" commit a63d83f427fbce97a6cea0db2e64b0eb8435cd10 +This file displays the current score that the kernel gives to +this process for the purpose of selecting a process +for the OOM-killer. +A higher score means that the process is more likely to be +selected by the OOM-killer. +The basis for this score is the amount of memory used by the process, +with increases (+) or decreases (\-) for factors including: +.\" See mm/oom_kill.c::badness() before Linux 2.6.36 sources +.\" See mm/oom_kill.c::oom_badness() after Linux 2.6.36 +.\" commit a63d83f427fbce97a6cea0db2e64b0eb8435cd10 +.RS +.IP \[bu] 3 +whether the process is privileged (\-). +.\" More precisely, if it has CAP_SYS_ADMIN or (pre 2.6.36) CAP_SYS_RESOURCE +.RE +.IP +Before Linux 2.6.36 +the following factors were also used in the calculation of oom_score: +.RS +.IP \[bu] 3 +whether the process creates a lot of children using +.BR fork (2) +(+); +.IP \[bu] +whether the process has been running a long time, +or has used a lot of CPU time (\-); +.IP \[bu] +whether the process has a low nice value (i.e., > 0) (+); and +.IP \[bu] +whether the process is making direct hardware access (\-). +.\" More precisely, if it has CAP_SYS_RAWIO +.RE +.IP +The +.I oom_score +also reflects the adjustment specified by the +.I oom_score_adj +or +.I oom_adj +setting for the process. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR proc (5), +.BR proc_pid_oom_score_adj (5) |