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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-02 23:52:20 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-02 23:52:20 +0000
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Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks.
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diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
index 7fa187b..24d078a 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
@@ -83,7 +83,8 @@ length array of integers.
The
.Fn sysctlbyname
function accepts an ASCII representation of the name and internally
-looks up the integer name vector. Apart from that, it behaves the same
+looks up the integer name vector.
+Apart from that, it behaves the same
as the standard
.Fn sysctl
function.
@@ -454,7 +455,7 @@ The third and fourth level names are as follows:
.El
.Pp
If the third level name is KERN_PROC_ARGS then the command line argument
-array is returned in a flattened form, i.e. zero-terminated arguments
+array is returned in a flattened form, i.e., zero-terminated arguments
follow each other.
The total size of array is returned.
It is also possible for a process to set its own process title this way.
@@ -752,12 +753,14 @@ The returned data consists of a
0 if the statistics-based page management algorithm is in use
or 1 if the near-LRU algorithm is in use.
.It Li VM_SWAPPING_ENABLED
-1 if process swapping is enabled or 0 if disabled. This variable is
+1 if process swapping is enabled or 0 if disabled.
+This variable is
permanently set to 0 if the kernel was built with swapping disabled.
.It Li VM_V_CACHE_MAX
Maximum desired size of the cache queue.
.It Li VM_V_CACHE_MIN
-Minimum desired size of the cache queue. If the cache queue size
+Minimum desired size of the cache queue.
+If the cache queue size
falls very far below this value, the pageout daemon is awakened.
.It Li VM_V_FREE_MIN
Minimum amount of memory (cache memory plus free memory)
@@ -771,7 +774,8 @@ The total amount of free memory (including cache memory) that the
pageout daemon tries to maintain.
.It Li VM_V_INACTIVE_TARGET
The desired number of inactive pages that the pageout daemon should
-achieve when it runs. Inactive pages can be quickly inserted into
+achieve when it runs.
+Inactive pages can be quickly inserted into
process address space when needed.
.It Li VM_V_PAGEOUT_FREE_MIN
If the amount of free and cache memory falls below this value, the
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