From: Eric Valette <eric.valette@free.fr>
To: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>
Cc: linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Inconsistancies in /proc (status vs statm) leading to wrong documentation (proc.txt)
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 18:46:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <416815FD.2060502@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1097339477.2669.4212.camel@cube>
Albert Cahalan wrote:
>>Well the Documentation is said to matches 2.6.8-rc3 and is only 5 weeks
>>old according to bitkeeper changesets... So at least the doc should be
>>fixed.
>
>
> Removal would be simpler.
I beg to disagree. statm catche eyes when you want to know precisely
your memory usage or do you consider to be the single statm user via procps?
> Second of all, because you get more information this
> way. You can subtract to determine the address space
> used for IO alone.
Sure but displaying it via status information would be much more simple
furthermore I think it is incorrectly computed.
> I could go for another number: available address space.
> Then I could display percent used.
The free command does provide the information I think so it must be
somewhere else...
> Even the other files are only partly for humans.
> Minor changes will cause many tools to break.
Sure but many people in the embedded wolrd need to know precisley
process memory usage and possibly inside the program itsel not via
top/ps/free/...
And if tools display wrong information for ages, then it can still be
fixed...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-09 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-09 13:49 Inconsistancies in /proc (status vs statm) leading to wrong documentation (proc.txt) Albert Cahalan
2004-10-09 14:08 ` Eric Valette
2004-10-09 16:31 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-10-09 16:46 ` Eric Valette [this message]
2004-10-09 16:59 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-10-09 17:46 ` Eric Valette
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2004-10-09 9:54 Eric Valette
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