svn commit: r52108 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq

Eitan Adler eadler at FreeBSD.org
Sun Aug 12 02:53:47 UTC 2018


Author: eadler
Date: Sun Aug 12 02:53:46 2018
New Revision: 52108
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/52108

Log:
  faq: update entry about free data
  
  The way free memory management was done was changed in mid-2016. Update
  the FAQ to match.

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml	Sat Aug 11 21:02:22 2018	(r52107)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml	Sun Aug 12 02:53:46 2018	(r52108)
@@ -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


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