Re: Memory and Reality

2002-05-13 Thread Ed Hall
This tool is wonderful! It almost gives too much information (and that's a good thing). But the pmap_helper.ko kernel module is a little worrisome from a "safety" standpoint; just glancing through it, I see how it would be possible to leave with a LK_SHARED still held on p->p_vmspace->vm_map (sa

Re: Memory and Reality

2002-05-13 Thread Roman V. Palagin
On May 11, at 1:15pm -0700, Ed Hall wrote: > At Yahoo! we use a lot of shared memory, both in the form of .so's and > for IPC. It would be very useful to be able to accurately measure the > amount of shared and private memory associated with a process, the > number of references to a given share

Re: Memory and Reality

2002-05-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Ed Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020511 13:13] wrote: > At Yahoo! we use a lot of shared memory, both in the form of .so's and > for IPC. It would be very useful to be able to accurately measure the > amount of shared and private memory associated with a process, the > number of references to a giv

Memory and Reality

2002-05-11 Thread Ed Hall
At Yahoo! we use a lot of shared memory, both in the form of .so's and for IPC. It would be very useful to be able to accurately measure the amount of shared and private memory associated with a process, the number of references to a given shared memory object, resident vs. non- resident pages, a