Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Oct 2004 07:28:25 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: per-process shared information |
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On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 09:19:13AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > I display the data as a column in "top". Docomentation is > much easier to deal with if it doesn't have lots of special > cases for different kernel versions. > I guess I'd prefer that the fields of Linux 2.4 be restored, > and that any new fields be added on the end. Note that the > text and data fields are supposed to be rss-like as well. > Except for the size, they're all supposed to be that way. > This data was created to match what BSD provides. > If adding a new file to /proc, please pick a short name > that is friendly toward tab completion. "phymem" is OK.
The overhead is too catastrophic to tolerate. Please work with us to find a sufficient approximation to whatever statistics you want opposed to reverting to 2.4 algorithms or ones of similar expense.
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