From: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>,
linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton OSDL <akpm@osdl.org>,
Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: per-process shared information
Date: 15 Oct 2004 10:40:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1097851258.2666.13421.camel@cube> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041015142825.GI5607@holomorphy.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-15 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-13 23:10 per-process shared information Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-14 21:47 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-14 23:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-14 23:17 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-15 10:45 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-14 21:49 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-10-14 22:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-14 22:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-15 10:51 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-15 11:56 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-10-15 13:19 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-10-15 14:28 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-15 14:40 ` Albert Cahalan [this message]
2004-10-15 14:52 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-15 17:02 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-15 16:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-15 16:31 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-10-15 17:10 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-15 19:29 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-10-15 17:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-15 17:51 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-10-15 18:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-15 18:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-15 18:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-15 18:47 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-15 19:23 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-15 20:41 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-15 20:52 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-15 21:16 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-15 21:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-15 21:40 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-15 22:04 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-10-19 15:09 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-15 16:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-19 15:18 ` Bill Davidsen
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