[gnome-system-monitor/wip/mallard-help: 48/62] Review mem-* help pages
- From: Ekaterina Gerasimova <egerasimov src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gnome-system-monitor/wip/mallard-help: 48/62] Review mem-* help pages
- Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:22:49 +0000 (UTC)
commit 6ed8fa223d3fbbf5942ba176d07edc54ecf8a9d4
Author: Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>
Date: Tue Jan 28 12:26:29 2014 +0000
Review mem-* help pages
help/C/mem-check.page | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
help/C/mem-swap.page | 35 ++++++++++++++++++------------
2 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/help/C/mem-check.page b/help/C/mem-check.page
index 5d4a5e3..4250232 100644
--- a/help/C/mem-check.page
+++ b/help/C/mem-check.page
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
type="topic" style="task"
id="mem-check">
+
<info>
- <revision version="0.2" pkgversion="3.11" date="2014-01-26" status="review"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="3.11" date="2014-01-28" status="candidate"/>
<link type="guide" xref="index" group="memory" />
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
@@ -25,10 +26,10 @@
</credit>
<desc>The <gui>Resources</gui> tab tells you how much of your computer's
- memory is being used.</desc>
+ memory (RAM) is being used.</desc>
</info>
- <title>Check how much memory (RAM) is being used</title>
+ <title>How much memory is being used?</title>
<comment>
<cite date="2011-06-18" href="mailto:philbull gmail com">Phil Bull</cite>
@@ -40,35 +41,40 @@
<p>To check the current memory usage of your computer:</p>
<steps>
- <item><p>Click the <gui>Resources</gui> tab.</p>
+ <item>
+ <p>Click the <gui>Resources</gui> tab.</p>
</item>
</steps>
- <list>
- <item><p><gui>Memory and Swap History</gui> displays a running line graph
- for memory and swap as a percentage of the total available. These are plotted
- against time, with the current time at the right.</p>
- <note style = "tip"><p>The color of each line is indicated by the pie
- graphs below. Click the pie graph to change the color of the line graph.</p>
- </note>
- </item>
- <item><p>The <gui>Memory</gui> pie graph shows memory usage in
- <link xref="units">GiB</link> and as a percentage of the total available.</p>
- </item>
- </list>
+
+ <p><gui>Memory and Swap History</gui> displays a running line graph for
+ memory and swap as a percentage of the total available. These are plotted
+ against time, with the current time at the right.</p>
+
+ <note style="tip">
+ <p>The color of each line is indicated by the pie graphs below. Click the
+ pie graph to change the color of the line graph.</p>
+ </note>
+
+ <p>The <gui>Memory</gui> pie graph shows memory usage in
+ <link xref="units">GiB</link> and as a percentage of the total available.</p>
<p>To change the <gui>update interval</gui>:</p>
- <steps>
- <item><p>Click
- <guiseq><gui>System Monitor</gui><gui>Preferences</gui></guiseq>.</p>
- </item>
- <item><p>Click the <gui>Resources</gui> tab.</p></item>
- <item><p>Enter a value for <gui>Update interval in seconds</gui>.</p>
- </item>
- </steps>
+ <steps>
+ <item>
+ <p>Click
+ <guiseq><gui>System Monitor</gui><gui>Preferences</gui></guiseq>.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Click the <gui>Resources</gui> tab.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Enter a value for <gui>Update interval in seconds</gui>.</p>
+ </item>
+ </steps>
<section id="highusage">
- <title></title>
+ <title>Which processes are using the most memory?</title>
<p>To check which processes are using the most memory:</p>
@@ -87,4 +93,5 @@
</item>
</steps>
</section>
+
</page>
diff --git a/help/C/mem-swap.page b/help/C/mem-swap.page
index bb3417f..7e727d0 100644
--- a/help/C/mem-swap.page
+++ b/help/C/mem-swap.page
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
type="topic" style="task"
id="mem-swap">
+
<info>
- <revision version="0.2" pkgversion="3.11" date="2014-01-26" status="review"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="3.11" date="2014-01-28" status="final"/>
<link type="guide" xref="index" group="memory" />
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
@@ -28,26 +29,32 @@
<comment>
<cite date="2011-06-18" href="mailto:philbull gmail com">Phil Bull</cite>
<p>Explain what swap is and how it helps. Explain that the computer may run
- slowly if it's swapping too much.</p>
+ slowly if it's swapping too much.</p>
</comment>
- <p>Swap memory or <gui>swap space</gui> is the on-disk component of the virtual
- memory system. It is pre-configured as a <gui>swap partition</gui> or a
- <gui>swap file</gui> when Linux is first installed, but can also be added
- later.</p>
+ <p>Swap memory or <em>swap space</em> is the on-disk component of the virtual
+ memory system. It is pre-configured as a <em>swap partition</em> or a
+ <em>swap file</em> when Linux is first installed, but can also be added
+ later.</p>
- <note><p>Disk access is <em>very</em> slow compared to memory access. The
- system runs more slowly if there is excessive swapping, or <gui>thrashing</gui>,
- when the system is unable to find enough free memory. In this situation the only
- solution is to add more RAM.</p></note>
+ <note>
+ <p>Disk access is <em>very</em> slow compared to memory access. The system
+ runs more slowly if there is excessive swapping, or <em>thrashing</em>,
+ when the system is unable to find enough free memory. In this situation the
+ only solution is to add more RAM.</p>
+ </note>
- <p>To see whether swapping, or <gui>paging</gui>, has become a performance
+ <p>To see whether swapping, or <em>paging</em>, has become a performance
issue:</p>
<steps>
- <item><p>Click the <gui>Resources</gui> tab.</p></item>
- <item><p>The <gui>Memory and Swap History</gui> graph shows memory and swap
- use as percentages.</p></item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Click the <gui>Resources</gui> tab.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>The <gui>Memory and Swap History</gui> graph shows memory and swap use
+ as percentages.</p>
+ </item>
</steps>
</page>
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