From 0f4d208f1975f16f269134cee5f44c1f048581da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Mackall Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:21:22 -0700 Subject: Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: improve smaps field documentation Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Wu Fengguang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index a6aca8740883..a563b74c7aef 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -374,13 +374,13 @@ Swap: 0 kB KernelPageSize: 4 kB MMUPageSize: 4 kB -The first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for the -mapping in /proc/PID/maps. The remaining lines show the size of the mapping, -the amount of the mapping that is currently resident in RAM, the "proportional -set size” (divide each shared page by the number of processes sharing it), the -number of clean and dirty shared pages in the mapping, and the number of clean -and dirty private pages in the mapping. The "Referenced" indicates the amount -of memory currently marked as referenced or accessed. +The first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for the +mapping in /proc/PID/maps. The remaining lines show the size of the mapping +(size), the amount of the mapping that is currently resident in RAM (RSS), the +process' proportional share of this mapping (PSS), the number of clean and +dirty shared pages in the mapping, and the number of clean and dirty private +pages in the mapping. The "Referenced" indicates the amount of memory +currently marked as referenced or accessed. This file is only present if the CONFIG_MMU kernel configuration option is enabled. -- cgit v1.2.3