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- Lines: 9
- Date:
Thu Apr 29 11:53:41 1999
- Orig file:
v2.2.7/linux/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
- Orig date:
Fri Apr 16 14:47:30 1999
diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.2.7/linux/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt linux/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@
The Linux VM subsystem avoids excessive disk seeks by reading
multiple pages on a page fault. The number of pages it reads
-is dependant on the amount of memory in your machine.
+is dependent on the amount of memory in your machine.
The number of pages the kernel reads in at once is equal to
2 ^ page-cluster. Values above 2 ^ 5 don't make much sense
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