Re: /proc/*/statm, exactly what does shared mean?

would be very helpful. Thanks again, Richard F. Rebel On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 13:06 +, Hugh Dickins wrote: On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Richard F. Rebel wrote: I can't seem to find clear documentation about the 'share' column from /proc/pid/statm. Does this include pages that are shared

/proc/*/statm, exactly what does shared mean?

or mmmap)? If there is a place where I might find documentation that is more clear beyond the proc.txt in the kernel docs and then man pages for procfs, I'd welcome a pointer. Thanks, -- Richard F. Rebel cat /dev/null `tty` signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: /proc/*/statm, exactly what does shared mean?

be a solution. Would it be possible develop a solution allowing us to enable/disable this tracking via a sysctl call? Richard F. Rebel On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 11:02 -0400, Mauricio Lin wrote: Hi Hugh, Thanks by your suggestion. I did not know that kernel 2.4.29 has changed the statm implementation

Re: /proc/*/statm, exactly what does shared mean?

Hello Hugh, On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 16:10 +, Hugh Dickins wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Richard F. Rebel wrote: I have heard that this particular information, while very important to userland developers like me, is probably too expensive to keep track of for most users. Perhaps

Re: /proc/*/statm, exactly what does "shared" mean?

If so, any pointers would be very helpful. Thanks again, Richard F. Rebel On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 13:06 +, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Richard F. Rebel wrote: > > > > I can't seem to find clear documentation about the 'share' column > > from /proc//statm. &

/proc/*/statm, exactly what does "shared" mean?

or mmmap)? If there is a place where I might find documentation that is more clear beyond the proc.txt in the kernel docs and then man pages for procfs, I'd welcome a pointer. Thanks, -- Richard F. Rebel cat /dev/null > `tty` signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: /proc/*/statm, exactly what does "shared" mean?

be a solution. Would it be possible develop a solution allowing us to enable/disable this tracking via a sysctl call? Richard F. Rebel On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 11:02 -0400, Mauricio Lin wrote: > Hi Hugh, > > Thanks by your suggestion. I did not know that kernel 2.4.29 has > chang

Re: /proc/*/statm, exactly what does "shared" mean?

Hello Hugh, On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 16:10 +, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Richard F. Rebel wrote: > > > > I have heard that this particular information, while very important to > > userland developers like me, is probably too expensive to keep track