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diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.4.0-test5/linux/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt linux/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -118,11 +118,11 @@
 		reaches this number, only the kernel can
 		allocate more memory.
 freepages.low	If the number of free pages gets below this
-		point, the kernel starts swapping agressively.
+		point, the kernel starts swapping aggressively.
 freepages.high	The kernel tries to keep up to this amount of
 		memory free; if memory comes below this point,
 		the kernel gently starts swapping in the hopes
-		that it never has to do real agressive swapping.
+		that it never has to do real aggressive swapping.
 
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@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@
 
 This feature can be very useful because there are a lot of
 programs that malloc() huge amounts of memory "just-in-case"
-and don't much of it.
+and don't use much of it.
 
 Look at: mm/mmap.c::vm_enough_memory() for more information.
 
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@
 - swap cache
 
 When your system is both deep in swap and high on cache,
-it probably means that a lot of the swaped data is being
+it probably means that a lot of the swapped data is being
 cached, making for more efficient swapping than possible
 with the 2.0 kernel.
 
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@
 On a low-memory, single CPU system you can safely set these
 values to 0 so you don't waste the memory. On SMP systems it
 is used so that the system can do fast pagetable allocations
-without having to aquire the kernel memory lock.
+without having to acquire the kernel memory lock.
 
 For large systems, the settings are probably OK. For normal
 systems they won't hurt a bit. For small systems (<16MB ram)

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