Questions tagged [sysfs]

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How do I modify "/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled"

I use mongodb 3.0 and I find a warning: MongoDB shell version: 3.0.0 connecting to: test Server has startup warnings: 2015-03-13T16:28:29.405+0800 I CONTROL [initandlisten] 2015-03-13T16:28:29.406+0800 I CONTROL [initandlisten] ** WARNING:…
Feng Yu
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What's the "/sys" directory for?

A while ago I noticed this directory that I had not ever seen before, /sys. I researched a bit and read that "modern Linux systems" often have this directory, and that it manages devices. I thought that was what /dev was for. I can't seem to find a…
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No `rc.local` in 16.10, so how can I add a command to set brightness on boot?

I previously solved the problem by adding a command: echo X > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness to /etc/rc.local on Ubuntu 14.04 . But there is no /etc/rc.local on Ubuntu 16.10 . I don't know how to solve it now. Is there a new…
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'cat': can't open file: Permission denied

I am trying to copy the whole / directory to some other location. When doing cp recursively, it fails on some files like:- / # ls -lrt /sys/module/nf_conntrack_ipv4/uevent --w------- 1 root root 4096 Mar 7 06:29…
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Ubuntu 16.04 Complicated Interface Names

I'm trying to figure out how to restore the simple interface names in Ubuntu 16.04. I.e. enp3s0 renamed to eth0. I have tried to modify the GRUB configuration. I have tried editing /etc/udev/rules.d/10-network.rules, but both methods did nothing…
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how do I make "/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag" never status to close the THP warning

reboot the linux (ubuntu 16.04 redis 4.011) /var/log/redis.log shows # WARNING you have Transparent Huge Pages (THP) support enabled in your kernel. This will create latency and memory usage issues with Redis. To fix this issue run the command…
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How to change permission for Sysfs file using udev rules

I am writing a custom module kernel that boots at startup. I can write in the sysFS file using this : echo -e "(0,0,255,750)\n" | sudo tee /sys/fs/led_sysfs/led_value But I will have another software that will need to write to the sysFs file. This…
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How to delete debug files in /sys/kernel/debug?

sudo find / -size +5G -ls listed debug files with more than 8GB size at /sys/kernel/debug/dri/n/amdgpu_vram (n is the number of GPUs) These might be useless debug files. Cannot delete them (error "Operation not permited"). How to delete these…
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When running the dvb-fe-tool --femon command, a large number of error logs are recorded in the syslog

Every time I run the command dvb-fe-tool --femon, the following error logs are recorded in the syslog. Since the CPU load is also high, I would like to reduce it. If you know of any methods, please let me know. PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 24.04.1…
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What is the point of creating a symlink in /dev direcory?

I understand that you can write custom udev rules to create a symlink in /dev directory. Wondering what having a symlink in /dev accomplishes? What is the symlink linking to? ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0461",…
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/etc setting to ping as non-root freely

Since some not long time ping stopped working as non-root (I'm not sure if it distro-wide or maybe it is my custom kernel). The ping is fixed by this command: sysctl -w net.ipv4.ping_group_range="0 1000" But the problem is I cannot add it to…
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16.04 How do I stop Mongo 3.x.x and 4.x.x from complaining about WARNING: /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag is 'always'?

A default installation of MongoDB on Ubuntu 18.04 gives the following warning about transparent hugepage defrag. How to deal with it?
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