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ipc: document the new auto_msgmni proc file

Update Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: it describes the file
auto_msgmni intoduced to enable/disable msgmni automatic recomputing upon
memory add/remove (see thread http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/4/27).  Also
added a description for msgmni (this filex is only listed in
Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt).

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Nadia Derbey 16 years ago
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@@ -1339,6 +1339,25 @@ Enables/Disables the protection of the per-process proc entries "maps" and
 "smaps".  When enabled, the contents of these files are visible only to
 "smaps".  When enabled, the contents of these files are visible only to
 readers that are allowed to ptrace() the given process.
 readers that are allowed to ptrace() the given process.
 
 
+msgmni
+------
+
+Maximum number of message queue ids on the system.
+This value scales to the amount of lowmem. It is automatically recomputed
+upon memory add/remove or ipc namespace creation/removal.
+When a value is written into this file, msgmni's value becomes fixed, i.e. it
+is not recomputed anymore when one of the above events occurs.
+Use auto_msgmni to change this behavior.
+
+auto_msgmni
+-----------
+
+Enables/Disables automatic recomputing of msgmni upon memory add/remove or
+upon ipc namespace creation/removal (see the msgmni description above).
+Echoing "1" into this file enables msgmni automatic recomputing.
+Echoing "0" turns it off.
+auto_msgmni default value is 1.
+
 
 
 2.4 /proc/sys/vm - The virtual memory subsystem
 2.4 /proc/sys/vm - The virtual memory subsystem
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