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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 5fe4af170..cc447c1b5 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -118,11 +118,11 @@ freepages.min When the number of free pages in the system reaches this number, only the kernel can allocate more memory. freepages.low If the number of free pages gets below this - point, the kernel starts swapping agressively. + point, the kernel starts swapping aggressively. freepages.high The kernel tries to keep up to this amount of memory free; if memory comes below this point, the kernel gently starts swapping in the hopes - that it never has to do real agressive swapping. + that it never has to do real aggressive swapping. ============================================================== @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ In 2.2, the page cache is used for 3 main purposes: - swap cache When your system is both deep in swap and high on cache, -it probably means that a lot of the swaped data is being +it probably means that a lot of the swapped data is being cached, making for more efficient swapping than possible with the 2.0 kernel. @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ each processor will be between the low and the high value. On a low-memory, single CPU system you can safely set these values to 0 so you don't waste the memory. On SMP systems it is used so that the system can do fast pagetable allocations -without having to aquire the kernel memory lock. +without having to acquire the kernel memory lock. For large systems, the settings are probably OK. For normal systems they won't hurt a bit. For small systems (<16MB ram) |