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authorPhilippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2002-07-14 14:47:15 +0000
committerPhilippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2002-07-14 14:47:15 +0000
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The .Nm utility
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=99968
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diff --git a/usr.sbin/memcontrol/memcontrol.8 b/usr.sbin/memcontrol/memcontrol.8
index 998d9cdce18d..989eb16f2cf2 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/memcontrol/memcontrol.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/memcontrol/memcontrol.8
@@ -55,14 +55,16 @@ A number of supported system architectures allow the behaviour of the CPU
cache to be programmed to behave differently depending on the region being
written.
.Pp
-.Nm Memcontrol
+The
+.Nm
+utility
provides an interface to this facility, allowing CPU cache behavior to
be altered for ranges of system physical memory.
.Pp
These ranges are typically power-of-2 aligned and sized, however the specific
rules governing their layout vary between architectures. The
.Nm
-program does not attempt to enforce these rules, however the system will
+utility does not attempt to enforce these rules, however the system will
reject any attempt to set an illegal combination.
.Bl -tag -width clear
.It Ar list