Re: per-process shared information

William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-15T14:28:38Z

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