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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Correct description of SwapFree in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
(2012/11/16 16:01), Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> After migrating most of the information in
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt to the proc(5) man page,
> Jim Paris pointed out to me that the description of SwapFree
> in the man page seemed wrong. I think Jim is right,
> but am given pause by fact that that text has been in
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt since at least 2.6.0.
> Anyway, I believe that the patch below fixes things.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
>

Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

>
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> index a1793d6..cf4260f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> @@ -778,8 +778,7 @@ AnonHugePages: 49152 kB
> other things, it is where everything from the Slab is
> allocated. Bad things happen when you're out of lowmem.
> SwapTotal: total amount of swap space available
> - SwapFree: Memory which has been evicted from RAM, and is temporarily
> - on the disk
> + SwapFree: Amount of swap space that is currently unused.
> Dirty: Memory which is waiting to get written back to the disk
> Writeback: Memory which is actively being written back to the disk
> AnonPages: Non-file backed pages mapped into userspace page tables
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