Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:01:42 +0100 | From | Michael Kerrisk <> | Subject | [PATCH] Correct description of SwapFree in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt |
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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>
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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