From: Jan Kasprzak Subject: [PATCH] terminology in ip-sysctl.txt Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 09:24:06 +0200 Message-ID: <20060809072406.GL29602@fi.muni.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from tirith.ics.muni.cz ([147.251.4.36]:36301 "EHLO tirith.ics.muni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030577AbWHIHYl (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 03:24:41 -0400 To: davem@davemloft.net Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hello, this minor patch fixes the description of net.ipv4.tcp_mem sysctl in ip-sysctl.txt - the headline names the values "min, pressure, max", while the description uses the "low, pressure, high" values. Both tcp_rmem and tcp_wmem descriptions use the "min, pressure, max" values, so I have changed the tcp_mem to match this and not vice versa. Signed-Off-By: Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt.orig 2006-08-09 09:14:29.000000000 +0200 +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt 2006-08-09 09:21:01.000000000 +0200 @@ -294,15 +294,15 @@ Default: 87380*2 bytes. tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max - low: below this number of pages TCP is not bothered about its + min: below this number of pages TCP is not bothered about its memory appetite. pressure: when amount of memory allocated by TCP exceeds this number of pages, TCP moderates its memory consumption and enters memory pressure mode, which is exited when memory consumption falls - under "low". + under "min". - high: number of pages allowed for queueing by all TCP sockets. + max: number of pages allowed for queueing by all TCP sockets. Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available memory. -Yenya -- | Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak | | GPG: ID 1024/D3498839 Fingerprint 0D99A7FB206605D7 8B35FCDE05B18A5E | | http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/ Journal: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/blog/ | > I will never go to meetings again because I think face to face meetings < > are the biggest waste of time you can ever have. --Linus Torvalds <