From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>
Cc: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>,
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 09:49:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040806164941.GN17188@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1091801683.1231.2467.camel@cube>
On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 11:48, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Could you describe those in isolation from other issues?
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:14:43AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Whatever Roger found, plus:
> 1. trs == text RESIDENT size
> 2. drs == data RESIDENT size
> 3. memory-mapped devices should be counted for only 1 file
> (use an old Linux box running X to see)
> I'm not terribly concerned right now. I just don't think
> it's OK to go ripping out statm over a few bugs.
> If we ripped out every buggy piece of kernel code, we'd
> have a 0-byte kernel.
> There are far bigger issues elsewhere, like %CPU.
Okay, can you give precise definitions of trs and drs?
-- wli
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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>
Cc: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>,
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 09:49:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040806164941.GN17188@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1091801683.1231.2467.camel@cube>
On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 11:48, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Could you describe those in isolation from other issues?
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:14:43AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Whatever Roger found, plus:
> 1. trs == text RESIDENT size
> 2. drs == data RESIDENT size
> 3. memory-mapped devices should be counted for only 1 file
> (use an old Linux box running X to see)
> I'm not terribly concerned right now. I just don't think
> it's OK to go ripping out statm over a few bugs.
> If we ripped out every buggy piece of kernel code, we'd
> have a 0-byte kernel.
> There are far bigger issues elsewhere, like %CPU.
Okay, can you give precise definitions of trs and drs?
-- 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
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 [this message]
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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