On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 19:33 -0500, Richard F. Rebel wrote: > Does this report or help illustrate shared COW pages between apache > processes?
I certainly though it did, but this work was done by my friend Doug Steinwand, not by me. I don't really know much more about it, but it always seemed to work properly for me. > I thought that particular part of /proc/<pid>/statm reported > the pages potentially shared with other processes as they are part of > dynamically loaded libraries. I'm not sure the OS makes a distinction in reporting these things. > When I check top, the SHARE column says 2328, which is exactly 4 (page > size) x the 'share' number column number from top. From what I > understand so far, this does not represent COW pages shared between > related processes. It doesn't? We tell people that it does in the mod_perl docs. > Do I have the wrong end of the stick here? (Id rather I did, because I > have been using GTop to test my stuff before releasing). Does GTop tell you something different? I would expect it to give the same answer. - Perrin
