Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: per-process shared information | From | Albert Cahalan <> | Date | 15 Oct 2004 10:40:58 -0400 |
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On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 10:28, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > 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.
Why not get rid of rss too then? It's overhead.
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