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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