Re: per-process shared information

William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-15T18:31:17Z

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 08:14:46PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> that you can't get those values efficiently. Even assuming you're ok to
> drop shared by disabling SHR, it wouldn't help, without a kernel API
> change.

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:51:56PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
>> Well, as long as it makes the users happy... I don't personally
>> care, except to say that I don't care to document all sorts
>> of kernel-specific variations. It gets hopelessly messy.

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 08:14:46PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Yep, I believe users could be happy with Hugh's rss-anon_rss variant.

I just checked in with some Oracle people and the primary concern
is splitting up RSS into shared and private. Given either shared
or private the other is calculable.

-- wli