Improve wording.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
index ead886f4232d4caba8b3aaddae78fc37739c3453..2ba97e31d50eda49ed9897d23027527c8d45ebe7 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-
+
 
 
  Operating System Environment
@@ -1257,10 +1257,11 @@ Out of Memory: Killed process 12345 (postgres).
     On Linux 2.6 and later, an additional measure is to modify the
     kernel's behavior so that it will not overcommit memory.
     Although this setting will not prevent the OOM killer from
-    invoking altogether, it will lower the chances significantly and
+    being invoked altogether, it will lower the chances significantly and
     will therefore lead to more robust system behavior.  (It might also
-    cause fork() to fail when the machine appears to have available memory
-    because of other applications with careless memory allocation.) This
+    cause fork() to fail when the machine appears to have
+   available memory but it is actually reserved
+    to other applications with careless memory allocation.) This
     is done by selecting strict overcommit mode via
     sysctl: