Re: committed memory, mmaps and shms

From: Marcos Dione
Date: Fri Mar 13 2015 - 12:04:35 EST


On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 03:09:58PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> Well, the memory management subsystem is rather complex and it is not
> really trivial to match all the possible combinations into simple
> counters.

Yes, I imagine.

> I would be interested in the particular usecase where you want the
> specific information and it is important outside of debugging purposes.

Well, now it's more sheer curiosity than anything else, except for
the Commited_AS, which is directly related to work. I personalyy prefer
to a) have a full picture in my head and b) have it documented somwhere,
if at least in this thread.

-- Marcos.
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