Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2014-12-23

Re: [PATCH] proc.5: Add "VmSwap" to /proc/[pid]/status

From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <hidden>
Date: 2014-12-23 15:06:33

Sven,

On 12/14/2014 03:20 PM, Sven Hoexter wrote:
quoted hunk
Documented as is in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt of Linux 3.18.

Signed-off-by: Sven Hoexter <sven-jJOYKVDXsn5H4x6Dk/4f9A@public.gmane.org>
---
 man5/proc.5 | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index 96077d0..b16f2a7 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5
@@ -1587,6 +1587,7 @@ VmStk:        88 kB
 VmExe:       572 kB
 VmLib:      1708 kB
 VmPTE:        20 kB
+VmSwap:        0 kB
 Threads:        1
 SigQ:   0/3067
 SigPnd: 0000000000000000
@@ -1672,6 +1673,9 @@ Shared library code size.
 .IR VmPTE :
 Page table entries size (since Linux 2.6.10).
 .IP *
+.IR VmSwap :
+Size of swap usage (the number of referred swapents).
+.IP *
 .IR Threads :
 Number of threads in process containing this thread.
 .IP *
Thanks for this patch. I've applied, and added text that the field 
appeared in Linux 2.6.34. However, I have a question: what does the
text "(the number of referred swapents)" mean? Is this field
not just reporting a value in kB (i.e., the number of kB across all 
swap entries)?

Cheers,

Michael



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