On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Larry Brown wrote:
> So each numbered folder in proc is associated with each running process
yes; /proc/self -> /proc/<reading process' PID>, so you're always
guaranteed that one will exist.
> and status is the file tracking its current size etc.?
Got me. There's all kinds on nifty information in "status".
> FDSize
> VmSize
> VmLck
> VmRSS
> VmData
> VmStk
> VmExe
> VmLib
>
> I take it Vm does not mean Virtual Memory?
Actually I think it does, FVO "virtual" == "real + swap + memory-mapped
files".
> As RSS means the portion loaded into memory right?
"Resident Set Size", IIRC. I don't know exactly what that implies, but my
"top" says vmware has a SIZE of 349M, and a RSS of 348M, and I don't think
all that is swapped in now. ICBW, of course.
> Do you know where can I get a breakdown of the significance of these
> values?
Mmm, try http://www.mozilla.org/projects/footprint/footprint-guide.html
about 2/3 the way down. Also examine "statm", alongside "status";
explanation in Table 1-2 of /usr/src/linux/filesystems/proc.txt .
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