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-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.39
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
index 6b6e4f582ef..6a012fd23df 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.69 2011/07/21 20:34:32 jasper Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.70 2011/07/22 07:00:44 otto Exp $
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 21 2011 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 22 2011 $
.Dt MALLOC 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -302,8 +302,9 @@ Decrease the size of the free page cache by a factor of two.
Increase the size of the free page cache by a factor of two.
.El
.Pp
-So to set a systemwide reduction of cache size and use guard pages:
-.Dl # ln -s 'G\*(Lt' /etc/malloc.conf
+So to set a systemwide reduction of the cache to a quarter of the
+default size and use guard pages:
+.Dl # ln -s 'G\*(Lt\*(Lt' /etc/malloc.conf
.Pp
The flags are mostly for testing and debugging.
If a program changes behavior if any of these options (except