From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc.5: Add "VmSwap" to /proc/[pid]/status Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 16:06:33 +0100 Message-ID: <549984F9.9090501@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Sven Hoexter Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Sven, On 12/14/2014 03:20 PM, Sven Hoexter wrote: > Documented as is in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt of Linux 3.18. > > Signed-off-by: Sven Hoexter > --- > man5/proc.5 | 4 ++++ > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5 > index 96077d0..b16f2a7 100644 > --- a/man5/proc.5 > +++ b/man5/proc.5 > @@ -1587,6 +1587,7 @@ VmStk: 88 kB > VmExe: 572 kB > VmLib: 1708 kB > VmPTE: 20 kB > +VmSwap: 0 kB > Threads: 1 > SigQ: 0/3067 > SigPnd: 0000000000000000 > @@ -1672,6 +1673,9 @@ Shared library code size. > .IR VmPTE : > Page table entries size (since Linux 2.6.10). > .IP * > +.IR VmSwap : > +Size of swap usage (the number of referred swapents). > +.IP * > .IR Threads : > Number of threads in process containing this thread. > .IP * Thanks for this patch. I've applied, and added text that the field appeared in Linux 2.6.34. However, I have a question: what does the text "(the number of referred swapents)" mean? Is this field not just reporting a value in kB (i.e., the number of kB across all swap entries)? Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html