From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>
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: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 07:28:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041015142825.GI5607@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1097846353.2674.13298.camel@cube>
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.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-15 14:28 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 [this message]
2004-10-15 14:40 ` Albert Cahalan
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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