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It's killing off apps just because the ZRAM is low. This also makes it impossible to turn off ZRAM, which I would like to do. UPDATE: I found tunable values on this page: https://source.android.com/devices/tech/perf/lmkd?hl=en. And this page seems to be more up to date: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/memory/lmkd/
- About Memory Pressure
- Pressure Stall Information
- Drawbacks of In-Kernel LMK Driver
- Userspace Lmkd
An Android system running multiple processes in parallel may encountersituations when system memory is exhausted and processes that require morememory experience noticeable delays. Memory pressure, a state in which thesystem is running short on memory, requires Android to free memory (to alleviatethe pressure) by throttling or killing unimportant p...
Android 10 and higher support a new lmkd mode thatuses kernel pressure stall information (PSI) monitors for memory pressuredetection. The PSI patchset in the upstream kernel (backported to 4.9 and 4.14kernels) measures the amount of time that tasks are delayed as a result ofmemory shortages. As these delays directly affect user experience, theyrepr...
Android deprecates the LMK driver due to a number of issues, including: 1. Low-RAM devices had to be tuned aggressively, and even then wouldperform poorly on workloads with large file-backed active pagecache. Thepoor performance resulted in thrashing and no kills. 2. The LMK kernel driver relied on free-memory limits, with no scaling basedon the me...
The userspace lmkd implements the same functionality as the in-kernel driverbut uses existing kernel mechanisms to detect and estimate memory pressure. Suchmechanisms include using kernel-generated vmpressureevents or pressure stallinformation (PSI) monitors to get notifications about memory pressure levels,and using memory cgroup features to limit...
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How do I configure lmkd in Android?
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Does userspace lmkd support kill strategies?
ro.lmk.kill_heaviest_task: kill heaviest eligible task (best decision) vs. any eligible task (fast decision). Default = false. ro.lmk.kill_timeout_ms: duration in ms after a kill when no additional kill will be done, Default = 0 (disabled) ro.lmk.debug: enable lmkd debug logs, Default = false.
How to switch to userspace lmkd. Starting in Android {{ androidPVersionNumber }}, userspace lmkd activates if an in-kernel lowmemorykiller driver is not detected. Note that userspace lmkd requires kernel support for memory cgroups. Therefore, to switch to userspace lmkd the kernel should be compiled with the following configuration settings:
Since Linux Kernel 4.12 the lowmemorykiller driver has been removed and instead userspace lmkd daemon performs these tasks. Android Properties. lmkd can be configured on a particular system using the following Android properties: ro.config.low_ram: choose between low-memory vs high-performance device. Default = false.
Since Linux Kernel 4.12 the lowmemorykiller driver has been removed and instead userspace lmkd daemon performs these tasks. Android Properties. lmkd can be configured on a particular system using the following Android properties: ro.config.low_ram: choose between low-memory vs high-performance device. Default = false.
Since Linux Kernel 4.12 the lowmemorykiller driver has been removed and instead userspace lmkd daemon performs these tasks. Android Properties. lmkd can be configured on a particular system using the following Android properties: ro.config.low_ram: choose between low-memory vs high-performance device. Default = false.
