NAME

       earlyoom - Early OOM Daemon

SYNOPSIS

       earlyoom [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

       The  oom-killer  generally  has  a  bad reputation among Linux users.  One may have to sit in front of an
       unresponsive system, listening to the grinding disk for minutes, and press the reset  button  to  quickly
       get back to what one was doing after running out of patience.

       earlyoom checks the amount of available memory and free swap up to 10 times a second (less often if there
       is a lot of free memory).  If both memory and swap are below  10%,  it  will  kill  the  largest  process
       (highest oom_score).  The percentage value is configurable via command line arguments.

       If  there  is a failure when trying to kill a process, earlyoom sleeps for 1 second to limit log spam due
       to recurring errors.

OPTIONS

   -m PERCENT[,KILL_PERCENT]
       set available memory minimum to PERCENT of total (default 10 %).

       earlyoom starts sending SIGTERM once both memory and swap are below their respective PERCENT setting.  It
       sends SIGKILL once both are below their respective KILL_PERCENT setting (default PERCENT/2).

       Use the same value for PERCENT and KILL_PERCENT if you always want to use SIGKILL.

       Examples:

              earlyoom              # sets PERCENT=10, KILL_PERCENT=5

              earlyoom -m 30        # sets PERCENT=30, KILL_PERCENT=15

              earlyoom -m 20,18     # sets PERCENT=20, KILL_PERCENT=18

   -s PERCENT[,KILL_PERCENT]
       set  free  swap  minimum  to  PERCENT  of total (default 10 %).  Send SIGKILL if at or below KILL_PERCENT
       (default PERCENT/2), otherwise SIGTERM.

       You can use -s 100 to have earlyoom effectively ignore swap usage: Processes are  killed  once  available
       memory drops below the configured minimum, no matter how much swap is free.

       Use the same value for PERCENT and KILL_PERCENT if you always want to use SIGKILL.

   -M SIZE[,KILL_SIZE]
       As  an  alternative  to  specifying a percentage of total memory, -M sets the available memory minimum to
       SIZE KiB.  The value is internally converted to a percentage.  You can only use either -m or -M.

       Send SIGKILL if at or below KILL_SIZE (default SIZE/2), otherwise SIGTERM.

   -S SIZE[,KILL_SIZE]
       As an alternative to specifying a percentage of total swap, -S sets the free swap minimum  to  SIZE  KiB.
       The value is internally converted to a percentage.  You can only use either -s or -S.

       Send SIGKILL if at or below KILL_SIZE (default SIZE/2), otherwise SIGTERM.

   -k
       removed in earlyoom v1.2, ignored for compatibility

   -i
       user-space oom killer should ignore positive oom_score_adj values

   -d
       enable debugging messages

   -v
       print version information and exit

   -r INTERVAL
       memory  report  interval  in seconds (default 1), set to 0 to disable completely.  With earlyoom v1.2 and
       higher, floating point numbers are accepted.  Due to the adaptive poll rate, when there is a lot of  free
       memory, the actual interval may be up to 1 second longer than the setting.

   -p
       Increase earlyoom's priority: set niceness of earlyoom to -20 and oom_score_adj to -1000

   --prefer REGEX
       prefer killing processes matching REGEX (adds 300 to oom_score)

   --avoid REGEX
       avoid killing processes matching REGEX (subtracts 300 from oom_score)

   -h, --help
       this help text

EXIT STATUS

       0: Successful program execution.

       1: Usage printed (using -h).

       2: Switch conflict.

       4: Could not cd to /proc

       5: Could not open proc

       7: Could not open /proc/sysrq-trigger

       13: Unknown options.

       14: Wrong parameters for other options.

       15: Wrong parameters for memory threshold.

       16: Wrong parameters for swap threshold.

       102: Could not open /proc/meminfo

       103: Could not read /proc/meminfo

       104: Could not find a specific entry in /proc/meminfo

       105: Could not convert number when parse the contents of /proc/meminfo

Why not trigger the kernel oom killer?

       Earlyoom does not use echo f > /proc/sysrq-trigger because the Chrome people made their browser always be
       the first (innocent!)  victim by setting oom_score_adj very high.  Instead, earlyoom finds out itself  by
       reading through /proc/*/status (actually /proc/*/statm, which contains the same information but is easier
       to parse programmatically).

       Additionally, in recent kernels (tested on 4.0.5), triggering the kernel oom killer manually may not work
       at  all.   That  is, it may only free some graphics memory (that will be allocated immediately again) and
       not actually kill any process.

MEMORY USAGE

       About 2 MiB VmRSS.  All memory is locked using mlockall() to make sure earlyoom does not slow down in low
       memory situations.

BUGS

       If  there is zero total swap on earlyoom startup, any -S (uppercase “S”) values are ignored, a warning is
       printed, and default swap percentages are used.

AUTHOR

       The author of earlyoom is Jakob Unterwurzacher ⟨jakobunt@gmail.com⟩.

       This manual page was written by Yangfl ⟨mmyangfl@gmail.com⟩, for the Debian project (and may be  used  by
       others).

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