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| author | Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> | 2018-08-12 02:53:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> | 2018-08-12 02:53:46 +0000 |
| commit | e42236723f3631637ec98fa7973bd7dd8f069f3e (patch) | |
| tree | 2c7d8bbb942dbacaa50d7fc0c2e45c54d6b17dab /en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq | |
| parent | 8af08f8b6f54d25ab37181b1d1976d6d7b349b52 (diff) | |
| download | doc-e42236723f3631637ec98fa7973bd7dd8f069f3e.tar.gz doc-e42236723f3631637ec98fa7973bd7dd8f069f3e.zip | |
faq: update entry about free data
The way free memory management was done was changed in mid-2016. Update
the FAQ to match.
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=52108
Diffstat (limited to 'en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq')
| -rw-r--r-- | en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml index fd9a67f9d7..8b900ea796 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml @@ -6532,8 +6532,8 @@ hint.sio.7.irq="12"</programlisting> memory. Any memory that programs do not actively allocate is used within the &os; kernel as disk cache. The values shown by &man.top.1; labeled as - <literal>Inact</literal>, <literal>Cache</literal>, and - <literal>Buf</literal> are all cached data at different + <literal>Inact</literal> and <literal>Laundry</literal> + are cached data at different aging levels. This cached data means the system does not have to access a slow disk again for data it has accessed recently, thus increasing overall performance. In |