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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index bbd2e58d39d2..72af5de1effb 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1220,9 +1220,9 @@ applications are using mlock(), or if you are running with no swap then you probably should increase the lower_zone_protection setting. The units of this tunable are fairly vague. It is approximately equal -to "megabytes". So setting lower_zone_protection=100 will protect around 100 +to "megabytes," so setting lower_zone_protection=100 will protect around 100 megabytes of the lowmem zone from user allocations. It will also make -those 100 megabytes unavaliable for use by applications and by +those 100 megabytes unavailable for use by applications and by pagecache, so there is a cost. The effects of this tunable may be observed by monitoring |