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| author | Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> | 2010-10-26 14:21:22 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-10-26 16:52:05 -0700 |
| commit | 0f4d208f1975f16f269134cee5f44c1f048581da (patch) | |
| tree | 0a09155b2e961a7d75f7235dcc72a7fc118272ee /Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |
| parent | a4f7326da2bfe788b85509ec0c261e64596cdde4 (diff) | |
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Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: improve smaps field documentation
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index a6aca8740883..a563b74c7aef 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -374,13 +374,13 @@ Swap: 0 kB KernelPageSize: 4 kB MMUPageSize: 4 kB -The first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for the -mapping in /proc/PID/maps. The remaining lines show the size of the mapping, -the amount of the mapping that is currently resident in RAM, the "proportional -set size” (divide each shared page by the number of processes sharing it), the -number of clean and dirty shared pages in the mapping, and the number of clean -and dirty private pages in the mapping. The "Referenced" indicates the amount -of memory currently marked as referenced or accessed. +The first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for the +mapping in /proc/PID/maps. The remaining lines show the size of the mapping +(size), the amount of the mapping that is currently resident in RAM (RSS), the +process' proportional share of this mapping (PSS), the number of clean and +dirty shared pages in the mapping, and the number of clean and dirty private +pages in the mapping. The "Referenced" indicates the amount of memory +currently marked as referenced or accessed. This file is only present if the CONFIG_MMU kernel configuration option is enabled. |