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Date:      Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:45:28 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        James Gritton <gritton@iserver.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What's the memory footprint of a set of processes?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301291145030.25856-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <200301291940.h0TJeXm1022866@guppy.dmz.orem.verio.net>

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check out /proc/<PID>/map for a really detailed map of the process.


On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, James Gritton wrote:

> How do I find how much memory (real and/or virtual) is being used by a set
> of processes, taking shared pages into account?  I see per-process numbers I
> can use (vmspace_resident_count and vmspace_swap_count), and overall usage
> numbers exist, but I can't find a better way of measuring multiple processes
> than adding their individual totals together.  This can lead to wild
> inaccuracies if a few processes share a lot of pages (Java comes to mind, as
> do database servers).  Is there some kind of reference count I can access
> per page, or some not-too-expensive way to see what processes are using a
> page?  I see some things in the VM code that look like recerence counts
> (such as act_count in struct vm_page), but they don't seem to really be
> such, or at least they don't count what I'm expecting them to.
> 
> This is on 4.7.  I haven't really looked at 5, so I don't know how different
> it is.
> 
> - James Gritton
>   gritton@iserver.com
> 
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