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From: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
To: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to find out how many other processes share VM with $PID?
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:13:54 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <388216835.20155@ustc.edu.cn> (raw)
Message-ID: <20070827121354.GA5616@mail.ustc.edu.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200708271256.31874.vda.linux@googlemail.com>

Hi Denys,

On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:56:31PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was a bit frustrated by bad quality of memory usage info
> from top and ps, and decided to write my own utility.
> 
> One problem I don't know how to solve is how to avoid counting
> twice (or more) memory used by processes which share VM
> (by use of CLONE_VM flage to sys_clone).
> 
> I know how to detect and correctly account for threads
> (processes created with CLONE_THREAD), but how to detect non-threads
> with shared VM?

There is a nice LWN article on this issue:
        ELC: How much memory are applications really using?
        http://lwn.net/Articles/230975/

Another helpful patch could be:
        maps: PSS(proportional set size) accounting in smaps
        http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/19/23

Fengguang


  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-27 12:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-27 11:56 How to find out how many other processes share VM with $PID? Denys Vlasenko
     [not found] ` <20070827121354.GA5616@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-08-27 12:13   ` Fengguang Wu [this message]
2007-08-27 13:26     ` Denys Vlasenko
     [not found]       ` <20070828001004.GA11875@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-08-28  0:10         ` Fengguang Wu
2007-08-28 20:00           ` Denys Vlasenko
     [not found]             ` <20070829071432.GA5777@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-08-29  7:14               ` Fengguang Wu

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