On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 10:57:31AM +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
> I keep forgetting to check that you are on the cc. My email client
> loves dropping you from the to/cc list.
hehe, sorry for my crappy smtp server ;)
> Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > The "proportional set size" (PSS) of a process is the count of pages it has in
> > memory, where each page is divided by the number of processes sharing it. So if
> > a process has 1000 pages all to itself, and 1000 shared with one other process,
> > its PSS will be 1500.
> > - lwn.net: "ELC: How much memory are applications really using?"
> >
> > The PSS proposed by Matt Mackall is a very nice metic for measuring an process's
> > memory footprint. So collect and export it via /proc/<pid>/smaps.
> >
> > Matt Mackall's pagemap/kpagemap and John Berthels's exmap can also do the job,
> > providing pretty much details. But for PSS, let's do it in a simple way.
> >
> > Cc: Matt Mackall <[email protected]>
> > Cc: John Berthels <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <[email protected]>
>
> I like the idea of moving towards PSS. I had sent some patches back in December
> last year
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=116738715329816&w=4
Thank you. That's a pretty comprehensive work.
> > - if (page_mapcount(page) >= 2) {
> > + mapcount = page_mapcount(page);
> > + if (mapcount >= 2) {
>
> This accounting is of-course racy. Mapcount can change any moment.
Sure it is: I never expect to provide accurate numbers.
The mapcount here is to prevent divide-by-zero errors.
> If we are reasonably sure that mapping will not change at the time
> of page_rmap_xxxxx() operations, we could handle shared accounting
> at those points and implement accurate shared accounting.
That would be desirable, if only we can keep the cost low ;)
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