tree 0eaf4d91180556df61da6300463d946390ce55fb
parent 61d5048f149572434daee0cce5e1374a8a7cf3e8
author Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> 1202192936 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> 1202233456 -0800

maps4: add proportional set size accounting in smaps

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.  They are comprehensive tools.  But for PSS, let's do it in the simple
way.

Cc: John Berthels <jjberthels@gmail.com>
Cc: Bernardo Innocenti <bernie@codewiz.org>
Cc: Padraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>