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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 79a797eb3e87..1fbd4eb7b64a 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | |||
| @@ -119,8 +119,11 @@ other appears as 0 when read. | |||
| 119 | 119 | ||
| 120 | dirty_background_ratio | 120 | dirty_background_ratio |
| 121 | 121 | ||
| 122 | Contains, as a percentage of total system memory, the number of pages at which | 122 | Contains, as a percentage of total available memory that contains free pages |
| 123 | the background kernel flusher threads will start writing out dirty data. | 123 | and reclaimable pages, the number of pages at which the background kernel |
| 124 | flusher threads will start writing out dirty data. | ||
| 125 | |||
| 126 | The total avaiable memory is not equal to total system memory. | ||
| 124 | 127 | ||
| 125 | ============================================================== | 128 | ============================================================== |
| 126 | 129 | ||
| @@ -151,9 +154,11 @@ interval will be written out next time a flusher thread wakes up. | |||
| 151 | 154 | ||
| 152 | dirty_ratio | 155 | dirty_ratio |
| 153 | 156 | ||
| 154 | Contains, as a percentage of total system memory, the number of pages at which | 157 | Contains, as a percentage of total available memory that contains free pages |
| 155 | a process which is generating disk writes will itself start writing out dirty | 158 | and reclaimable pages, the number of pages at which a process which is |
| 156 | data. | 159 | generating disk writes will itself start writing out dirty data. |
| 160 | |||
| 161 | The total avaiable memory is not equal to total system memory. | ||
| 157 | 162 | ||
| 158 | ============================================================== | 163 | ============================================================== |
| 159 | 164 | ||