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From: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>
To: linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: rl@hellgate.ch, linux-mm@vger.kernel.org, u1_amd64@dslr.net
Subject: Re: time cat /proc/*/statm ?
Date: 10 Jan 2004 12:57:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1073757421.828.25312.camel@cube> (raw)

Roger Luethi writes:

> Why does top still read /proc/*/statm anyway?
> It's not as if top actually ever used that
> information (the top I looked at at the time,
> that is). I submitted a patch a few months ago
> to remove statm because it is a) broken and
> b) redundant. The message containing detailed
> reasoning should be in the linux-mm archives.

top (from procps-3.1.14 at least) only reads
the /proc/*/statm files when you activate
columns that need the statm data. Those are:

%MEM   Memory usage (RES) 
VIRT   Virtual Image (kb) 
SWAP   Swapped size (kb) 
RES    Resident size (kb) 
CODE   Code size (kb) 
DATA   Data+Stack size (kb) 
SHR    Shared Mem size (kb)
nDRT   Dirty Pages count 

By default, some of those get displayed.
The default includes: VIRT RES SHR %MEM

To get rid of those, type this:
   f  o  q  t  n  enter  W
(the "W" writes out a config file)

In case your top is too old for this, you
can go to http://procps.sf.net/ for a new one.



             reply	other threads:[~2004-01-10 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-10 17:57 Albert Cahalan [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-08 18:54 time cat /proc/*/statm ? u1_amd64
2004-01-09  0:32 ` Roger Luethi
2004-01-09  0:49 ` Willy Tarreau

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