X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Ffaq%2Ffaq.rst;fp=doc%2Fguides%2Ffaq%2Ffaq.rst;h=bb1df7dc8a0f5cb8940db7b82c9b10ae345510e6;hb=c14ef1ecf48532b970a7076f8f38528f66c4ecee;hp=f19c1389b6afe9082adfca7ae097727a699cd2ac;hpb=4a560572e9a8cbb1c9e9610113619a5c2b76e12f;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/faq/faq.rst b/doc/guides/faq/faq.rst index f19c1389b6..bb1df7dc8a 100644 --- a/doc/guides/faq/faq.rst +++ b/doc/guides/faq/faq.rst @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ The number of pages allocated can be seen by executing the following command:: Once all the pages are mmapped by an application, they stay that way. If you start a test application with less than the maximum, then you have free pages. -When you stop and restart the test application, it looks to see if the pages are available in the ``/dev/huge`` directory and mmaps them. +When you stop and restart the test application, it looks to see if the pages are available in the ``/dev/hugepages`` directory and mmaps them. If you look in the directory, you will see ``n`` number of 2M pages files. If you specified 1024, you will see 1024 page files. These are then placed in memory segments to get contiguous memory.