[Patch] describe 'swappiness' for proc(5)

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Add descriptions for /proc/sys/vm/swappiness.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>

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diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index 48c103a..c74d7f7 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5
@@ -2382,6 +2382,14 @@ user should run
 .BR sync (8)
 first.
 .TP
+.IR /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
+.\" The following is from Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+This control is used to define how aggressive the kernel will swap
+memory pages.  Higher values will increase agressiveness, lower values
+descrease the amount of swap.
+
+The default value is 60.
+.TP
 .IR /proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout " (since Linux 2.6.9)"
 .\" The following is from Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
 If non-zero, this disables the new 32-bit memory-mapping layout;

 
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