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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt12
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 17a6e46fbd4..17f1f91af35 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -81,23 +81,23 @@ inet_peer_minttl - INTEGER
Minimum time-to-live of entries. Should be enough to cover fragment
time-to-live on the reassembling side. This minimum time-to-live is
guaranteed if the pool size is less than inet_peer_threshold.
- Measured in jiffies(1).
+ Measured in seconds.
inet_peer_maxttl - INTEGER
Maximum time-to-live of entries. Unused entries will expire after
this period of time if there is no memory pressure on the pool (i.e.
when the number of entries in the pool is very small).
- Measured in jiffies(1).
+ Measured in seconds.
inet_peer_gc_mintime - INTEGER
Minimum interval between garbage collection passes. This interval is
in effect under high memory pressure on the pool.
- Measured in jiffies(1).
+ Measured in seconds.
inet_peer_gc_maxtime - INTEGER
Minimum interval between garbage collection passes. This interval is
in effect under low (or absent) memory pressure on the pool.
- Measured in jiffies(1).
+ Measured in seconds.
TCP variables:
@@ -794,10 +794,6 @@ tag - INTEGER
Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required.
Default value is 0.
-(1) Jiffie: internal timeunit for the kernel. On the i386 1/100s, on the
-Alpha 1/1024s. See the HZ define in /usr/include/asm/param.h for the exact
-value on your system.
-
Alexey Kuznetsov.
kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru