From c2b0a955a415c104be0fa1b3118f48f726fd23ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 16:10:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] numastat.8: clarify that information relates to resident
pages
The man page gives no hint about whether memory usage information
relates to resident pages or virtual memory. The answer may not be
obvious to the user, so explicitly mention that only resident pages are
counted.
Suggested-by: Daniele Palumbo <daniele@retaggio.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
---
numastat.8 | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/numastat.8 b/numastat.8
index 4dcddf3..7fbcab2 100644
--- a/numastat.8
+++ b/numastat.8
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ Any supplied options or arguments with the \fBnumastat\fP command will
significantly change both the content and the format of the display. Specified
options will cause display units to change to megabytes of memory, and will
change other specific behaviors of \fBnumastat\fP as described below.
+.LP
+Memory usage information reflects the resident pages on the system.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.LP
.TP
--
2.7.5