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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 402ab99..e95aa1c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -169,6 +169,9 @@ read the file /proc/PID/status: VmLck: 0 kB VmHWM: 476 kB VmRSS: 476 kB + RssAnon: 352 kB + RssFile: 120 kB + RssShmem: 4 kB VmData: 156 kB VmStk: 88 kB VmExe: 68 kB @@ -231,14 +234,20 @@ Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 4.1) VmSize total program size VmLck locked memory size VmHWM peak resident set size ("high water mark") - VmRSS size of memory portions + VmRSS size of memory portions. It contains the three + following parts (VmRSS = RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem) + RssAnon size of resident anonymous memory + RssFile size of resident file mappings + RssShmem size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, + mapping of tmpfs and shared anonymous mappings) VmData size of data, stack, and text segments VmStk size of data, stack, and text segments VmExe size of text segment VmLib size of shared library code VmPTE size of page table entries VmPMD size of second level page tables - VmSwap size of swap usage (the number of referred swapents) + VmSwap amount of swap used by anonymous private data + (shmem swap usage is not included) HugetlbPages size of hugetlb memory portions Threads number of threads SigQ number of signals queued/max. number for queue @@ -265,7 +274,8 @@ Table 1-3: Contents of the statm files (as of 2.6.8-rc3) Field Content size total program size (pages) (same as VmSize in status) resident size of memory portions (pages) (same as VmRSS in status) - shared number of pages that are shared (i.e. backed by a file) + shared number of pages that are shared (i.e. backed by a file, same + as RssFile+RssShmem in status) trs number of pages that are 'code' (not including libs; broken, includes data segment) lrs number of pages of library (always 0 on 2.6) @@ -459,7 +469,10 @@ and a page is modified, the file page is replaced by a private anonymous copy. hugetlbfs page which is *not* counted in "RSS" or "PSS" field for historical reasons. And these are not included in {Shared,Private}_{Clean,Dirty} field. "Swap" shows how much would-be-anonymous memory is also used, but out on swap. -"SwapPss" shows proportional swap share of this mapping. +For shmem mappings, "Swap" includes also the size of the mapped (and not +replaced by copy-on-write) part of the underlying shmem object out on swap. +"SwapPss" shows proportional swap share of this mapping. Unlike "Swap", this +does not take into account swapped out page of underlying shmem objects. "Locked" indicates whether the mapping is locked in memory or not. "VmFlags" field deserves a separate description. This member represents the kernel @@ -842,6 +855,7 @@ Dirty: 968 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 861800 kB Mapped: 280372 kB +Shmem: 644 kB Slab: 284364 kB SReclaimable: 159856 kB SUnreclaim: 124508 kB @@ -898,6 +912,7 @@ MemAvailable: An estimate of how much memory is available for starting new AnonPages: Non-file backed pages mapped into userspace page tables AnonHugePages: Non-file backed huge pages mapped into userspace page tables Mapped: files which have been mmaped, such as libraries + Shmem: Total memory used by shared memory (shmem) and tmpfs Slab: in-kernel data structures cache SReclaimable: Part of Slab, that might be reclaimed, such as caches SUnreclaim: Part of Slab, that cannot be reclaimed on memory pressure |