From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>
Cc: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>,
linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [proc.txt] Fix /proc/pid/statm documentation
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 07:07:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040806140714.GG17188@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040806135756.GA21411@k3.hellgate.ch>
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 05:11:18 -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Some of the 2.4 semantics just don't make sense. I would not find it
>> difficult to explain what I believe correct semantics to be in a written
>> document.
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 03:57:56PM +0200, Roger Luethi wrote:
> IMO this is a must for such files (and be it only some comments above
> the code implementing them). I'm afraid that statm is carrying too much
> historical baggage, though -- you would add yet another interpretation
> of those 7 fields.
> Tools reading statm would have to be updated anyway, so I'd rather
> think about what could be done with a new (or just different) file.
Okay, could you write up a "specification" for what you want reported,
then I can cook up a new file or some such for you?
Thanks.
-- wli
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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>
Cc: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>,
linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [proc.txt] Fix /proc/pid/statm documentation
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 07:07:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040806140714.GG17188@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040806135756.GA21411@k3.hellgate.ch>
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 05:11:18 -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Some of the 2.4 semantics just don't make sense. I would not find it
>> difficult to explain what I believe correct semantics to be in a written
>> document.
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 03:57:56PM +0200, Roger Luethi wrote:
> IMO this is a must for such files (and be it only some comments above
> the code implementing them). I'm afraid that statm is carrying too much
> historical baggage, though -- you would add yet another interpretation
> of those 7 fields.
> Tools reading statm would have to be updated anyway, so I'd rather
> think about what could be done with a new (or just different) file.
Okay, could you write up a "specification" for what you want reported,
then I can cook up a new file or some such for you?
Thanks.
-- wli
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-06 1:11 [proc.txt] Fix /proc/pid/statm documentation Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 3:48 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 9:40 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 10:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 12:01 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 12:01 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 12:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 12:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 13:57 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 13:57 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 14:07 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-08-06 14:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 15:02 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 15:02 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 14:02 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 14:02 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 16:48 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 17:08 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 17:08 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 15:14 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 15:14 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 20:49 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-06 20:49 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-06 18:38 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 18:38 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 21:15 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-06 21:15 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-07 17:37 ` Paul Jackson
2004-08-07 17:37 ` Paul Jackson
2004-08-06 12:58 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 12:58 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 15:48 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 15:48 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 14:14 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 14:14 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 16:49 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 16:49 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 16:34 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 16:34 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 14:51 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 14:51 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 17:28 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-06 17:28 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-06 18:21 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 18:21 ` Roger Luethi
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2004-08-05 17:10 Roger Luethi
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