Victor Sudakov writes:
> I summed up with awk the values of %mem, which are supposed to be "ratio
> of the process's resident set size to the physical memory", correct?
>
> In my understanding, the value of %mem should indicate how much physical
> memory is spent on the "individual" part of the process, otherwise the
> parameter is either useless or misdocumented.
No, in resident memory you can find memory private to a process as well
as memory shared between processes.
And in memory private to a process, you can find resident memory and
non-resident memory.
According to Linux's Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt, we can find
this information in /proc/PID/status:
VmData size of private data segments
e.g. VmData: 123004 kB
This looks like the amount of private memory, but I'm not sure.
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Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY
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