From: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch> I really wanted /proc/pid/statm to die and I still believe the reasoning is valid. As it doesn't look like that is going to happen, though, I offer this fix for the respective documentation. Note: lrs/drs fields are switched. Signed-off-by: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> --- 25-akpm/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 20 +++++++++++--------- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff -puN Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt~fix-proc-pid-statm-documentation Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt --- 25/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt~fix-proc-pid-statm-documentation Thu Aug 5 15:31:53 2004 +++ 25-akpm/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt Thu Aug 5 15:31:53 2004 @@ -169,16 +169,18 @@ information. The statm file contains process memory usage. Its seven fields are explained in Table 1-2. -Table 1-2: Contents of the statm files +Table 1-2: Contents of the statm files (as of 2.6.8-rc3) .............................................................................. - File Content - size total program size - resident size of memory portions - shared number of pages that are shared - trs number of pages that are 'code' - drs number of pages of data/stack - lrs number of pages of library - dt number of dirty pages + Field Content + size total program size (pages) (same as VmSize in status) + resident size of memory portions (pages) (same as VmRSS in status) + shared number of pages that are shared (i.e. backed by a file) + trs number of pages that are 'code' (not including libs; broken, + includes data segment) + lrs number of pages of library (always 0 on 2.6) + drs number of pages of data/stack (including libs; broken, + includes library text) + dt number of dirty pages (always 0 on 2.6) .............................................................................. 1.2 Kernel data _