Messages in this thread |  | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: statm_pgd_range() sucks! | Date | Mon, 2 Sep 2002 00:02:38 +0200 |
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On Friday 30 August 2002 04:51, Andrew Morton wrote: > William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > (1) shared, lib, text, & total are now reported as what's mapped > > instead of what's resident. This actually fixes two bugs: > > hmm. Personally, I've never believed, or even bothered to try to > understand what those columns are measuring. Does anyone actually > find them useful for anything? If so, what are they being used for? > What info do we really, actually want to know?
I don't know what use 'shared' is, but it's clearly not very accurate since it's just adding up all pages with count >= 1. The only remotely correct thing to do here is check for multiple pte reverse pointers.
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