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Finding documentation for the /proc/sys/vm using a shell - Chap 13 - Memory Monitoring and Usage
punko_brewster
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Can someone please help me understand where to find this information using the shell? Thanks!
From Chap 13 - Memory Monitoring and Usage - /proc/sys/vm: "You can find the full documentation for the /proc/sys/vm directory in the kernel source (or kernel documentation package on your distribution), usually under Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt."
info on my system:
[email protected]:/etc
$ cat mx-version
MX-19.2_KDE_x64 patito feo August 16, 2020
[email protected]::/etc
$ uname -r
5.6.0-2-amd64
Thank you, in advance!
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I don't recognize your distribution so I can't give you specifics as to the packaged documentation (The names smells like Mint Linux which I no longer bother to keep up with as I advise people to stick with Ubuntu or Debian for various reasons I won't mention) -- there is always a "kernel-docs" or some such package. Or if you have the kernel sources, you can easily look in the "Documentation" directory.
Even easier: kernel.org/doc/Documentation
Got it. Thank you!
hi coop. I was having the same issue as punko here, on Ubuntu 20.04, while following the course material. Several areas of the course referred to the kernel doccos, but by all means, I could not find the stuff on any of my systems, be them vms, or physical.
Below, are two different systems, running two different kernels.
broken is a fresh install, deployed roughly a month ago, while squids has been my ubuntu desktop for about 3 years.
None have the documentation installed and present, however after installing linux-doc on both, I can find the documentation in /usr/share/doc/linux-doc.
This appears to be an optional package, on ubuntu, at least, yet I was never able to find the documentation present on fresh installations of fedora 33, openSuse Leap, Centos7 or Centos8.
I recommend not addressing this, as it allows candidates to search for a solution on their own and check the man pages, as I did.
[email protected]:~$ uname -r
5.8.0-45-generic
[email protected]:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal
[email protected]:~$ ls /usr/src/linux*/Documentation
/usr/src/linux-headers-5.4.0-42/Documentation:
admin-guide devicetree features Kconfig media scsi sphinx
arm64 EDID kbuild Makefile s390 sound trace
/usr/src/linux-headers-5.4.0-42-generic/Documentation:
admin-guide devicetree features Kconfig media scsi sphinx
arm64 EDID kbuild Makefile s390 sound trace
/usr/src/linux-headers-5.8.0-44-generic/Documentation:
admin-guide devicetree kbuild Makefile sound trace
arm64 features Kconfig s390 sphinx userspace-api
/usr/src/linux-headers-5.8.0-45-generic/Documentation:
admin-guide devicetree kbuild Makefile sound trace
arm64 features Kconfig s390 sphinx userspace-api
/usr/src/linux-hwe-5.8-headers-5.8.0-44/Documentation:
admin-guide devicetree kbuild Makefile sound trace
arm64 features Kconfig s390 sphinx userspace-api
/usr/src/linux-hwe-5.8-headers-5.8.0-45/Documentation:
admin-guide devicetree kbuild Makefile sound trace
arm64 features Kconfig s390 sphinx userspace-api
[email protected]:~$
[email protected]:~$ uname -r
5.4.0-54-generic
[email protected]:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal
[email protected]:~$ ls /usr/src/linux*/Documentation
/usr/src/linux-headers-5.4.0-1033-kvm/Documentation:
admin-guide devicetree features Kconfig media scsi sphinx
arm64 EDID kbuild Makefile s390 sound trace
/usr/src/linux-headers-5.4.0-1034-kvm/Documentation:
admin-guide devicetree features Kconfig media scsi sphinx
arm64 EDID kbuild Makefile s390 sound trace
/usr/src/linux-headers-5.4.0-54/Documentation:
admin-guide devicetree features Kconfig media scsi sphinx
arm64 EDID kbuild Makefile s390 sound trace
/usr/src/linux-headers-5.4.0-54-generic/Documentation:
admin-guide devicetree features Kconfig media scsi sphinx
arm64 EDID kbuild Makefile s390 sound trace
/usr/src/linux-headers-5.4.0-67/Documentation:
admin-guide devicetree features Kconfig media scsi sphinx
arm64 EDID kbuild Makefile s390 sound trace
/usr/src/linux-headers-5.4.0-67-generic/Documentation:
admin-guide devicetree features Kconfig media scsi sphinx
arm64 EDID kbuild Makefile s390 sound trace
/usr/src/linux-kvm-headers-5.4.0-1033/Documentation:
admin-guide devicetree features Kconfig media scsi sphinx
arm64 EDID kbuild Makefile s390 sound trace
/usr/src/linux-kvm-headers-5.4.0-1034/Documentation:
admin-guide devicetree features Kconfig media scsi sphinx
arm64 EDID kbuild Makefile s390 sound trace
[email protected]:~$
I hope this helps.
these days i have been pointing to the online kernel.org documentation as it is formatted better.
https://kernel.org/doc/html/latest/