diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst index eb96a440a064..533c79e8d2cd 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst @@ -1676,6 +1676,9 @@ This file can be used to check the current score used by the oom-killer for any given . Use it together with /proc//oom_score_adj to tune which process should be killed in an out-of-memory situation. +Please note that the exported value includes oom_score_adj so it is +effectively in range [0,2000]. + 3.3 /proc//io - Display the IO accounting fields -------------------------------------------------------