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From: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
To: John Berthels <jjberthels@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RESEND] maps: PSS(proportional set size) accounting in smaps
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:56:25 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <390192188.07822@ustc.edu.cn> (raw)
Message-ID: <20070919085625.GA5910@mail.ustc.edu.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57d8e7a0709190137v3d90d8e4r40eb254b657e9a94@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 09:37:21AM +0100, John Berthels wrote:
[...]
> Also exmap (I don't know if pagemap does this) grovels through ELF and
> /proc/<pid>/maps so you can see which section+symbol of your shared
> lib is hurting you. You're generally going to want this info in order
> to do anything about bad PSS numbers, so I'm not sure raw PSS numbers
> are directly useful.

Basically,
- getting the list of used/unused symbols are great for developers;
- getting the list of applications with their PSS numbers are good for users.

One is for 'analysis' and another is about 'accounting'.

> Is map2 -mm tree only (I didn't get anything on a grep of mainline
> 2.6.22.6)? Sorry, I'm a bit out of touch. If I could drop the kernel
> module from exmap and use an existing interface that would be great.

Yes.
It could be the right time for an early tryout and early feedbacks ;-)

Fengguang

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      reply	other threads:[~2007-09-19  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20070917024054.GA12036@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-09-17  2:40 ` [PATCH][RESEND] maps: PSS(proportional set size) accounting in smaps Fengguang Wu
2007-09-17  6:51   ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-17  7:08     ` Userspace tools (was Re: [PATCH][RESEND] maps: PSS(proportional set size) accounting in smaps) Balbir Singh
2007-09-17  9:00       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17  9:11         ` Balbir Singh
2007-09-17  9:15           ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 12:29             ` Userspace tools Karel Zak
2007-09-17  9:13         ` Userspace tools (was Re: [PATCH][RESEND] maps: PSS(proportional set size) accounting in smaps) Andrew Morton
     [not found]     ` <20070917072136.GA5706@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-09-17  7:21       ` [PATCH][RESEND] maps: PSS(proportional set size) accounting in smaps Fengguang Wu
2007-09-17 16:10     ` Matt Mackall
2007-09-17 17:49       ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-19  8:37       ` John Berthels
     [not found]         ` <20070919085625.GA5910@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-09-19  8:56           ` Fengguang Wu [this message]

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