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+refs/heads/master: ca3b78aa1672162f93de90cbf5051edea298a290

trunk/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt

@@ -88,20 +88,19 @@ you might want to raise the limit.
 
 file-max & file-nr:
 
-The kernel allocates file handles dynamically, but as yet it
-doesn't free them again.
-
 The value in file-max denotes the maximum number of file-
 handles that the Linux kernel will allocate. When you get lots
 of error messages about running out of file handles, you might
 want to increase this limit.
 
-Historically, the three values in file-nr denoted the number of
-allocated file handles, the number of allocated but unused file
-handles, and the maximum number of file handles. Linux 2.6 always
-reports 0 as the number of free file handles -- this is not an
-error, it just means that the number of allocated file handles
-exactly matches the number of used file handles.
+Historically,the kernel was able to allocate file handles
+dynamically, but not to free them again. The three values in
+file-nr denote the number of allocated file handles, the number
+of allocated but unused file handles, and the maximum number of
+file handles. Linux 2.6 always reports 0 as the number of free
+file handles -- this is not an error, it just means that the
+number of allocated file handles exactly matches the number of
+used file handles.
 
 Attempts to allocate more file descriptors than file-max are
 reported with printk, look for "VFS: file-max limit <number>