Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 02:53:46 +0000 (UTC) From: Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r52108 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq Message-ID: <201808120253.w7C2rkoW043633@repo.freebsd.org>
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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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