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author | Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> | 2008-04-30 03:54:39 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-04-30 11:29:50 -0400 |
commit | b88473f73e6d7b6af9cfc4ecc349d82c75d9a6af (patch) | |
tree | 82c6e9b13ad03ee85184fa20c40d8cb33efde4e3 | |
parent | fc3ba692a4d19019387c5acaea63131f9eab05dd (diff) |
mm: document missing fields for /proc/meminfo
A few fields in /proc/meminfo were not documented. Fix.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 21 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 2a99116edc47..dbc3c6a3650f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |||
@@ -463,11 +463,17 @@ SwapTotal: 0 kB | |||
463 | SwapFree: 0 kB | 463 | SwapFree: 0 kB |
464 | Dirty: 968 kB | 464 | Dirty: 968 kB |
465 | Writeback: 0 kB | 465 | Writeback: 0 kB |
466 | AnonPages: 861800 kB | ||
466 | Mapped: 280372 kB | 467 | Mapped: 280372 kB |
467 | Slab: 684068 kB | 468 | Slab: 284364 kB |
469 | SReclaimable: 159856 kB | ||
470 | SUnreclaim: 124508 kB | ||
471 | PageTables: 24448 kB | ||
472 | NFS_Unstable: 0 kB | ||
473 | Bounce: 0 kB | ||
474 | WritebackTmp: 0 kB | ||
468 | CommitLimit: 7669796 kB | 475 | CommitLimit: 7669796 kB |
469 | Committed_AS: 100056 kB | 476 | Committed_AS: 100056 kB |
470 | PageTables: 24448 kB | ||
471 | VmallocTotal: 112216 kB | 477 | VmallocTotal: 112216 kB |
472 | VmallocUsed: 428 kB | 478 | VmallocUsed: 428 kB |
473 | VmallocChunk: 111088 kB | 479 | VmallocChunk: 111088 kB |
@@ -503,8 +509,17 @@ VmallocChunk: 111088 kB | |||
503 | on the disk | 509 | on the disk |
504 | Dirty: Memory which is waiting to get written back to the disk | 510 | Dirty: Memory which is waiting to get written back to the disk |
505 | Writeback: Memory which is actively being written back to the disk | 511 | Writeback: Memory which is actively being written back to the disk |
512 | AnonPages: Non-file backed pages mapped into userspace page tables | ||
506 | Mapped: files which have been mmaped, such as libraries | 513 | Mapped: files which have been mmaped, such as libraries |
507 | Slab: in-kernel data structures cache | 514 | Slab: in-kernel data structures cache |
515 | SReclaimable: Part of Slab, that might be reclaimed, such as caches | ||
516 | SUnreclaim: Part of Slab, that cannot be reclaimed on memory pressure | ||
517 | PageTables: amount of memory dedicated to the lowest level of page | ||
518 | tables. | ||
519 | NFS_Unstable: NFS pages sent to the server, but not yet committed to stable | ||
520 | storage | ||
521 | Bounce: Memory used for block device "bounce buffers" | ||
522 | WritebackTmp: Memory used by FUSE for temporary writeback buffers | ||
508 | CommitLimit: Based on the overcommit ratio ('vm.overcommit_ratio'), | 523 | CommitLimit: Based on the overcommit ratio ('vm.overcommit_ratio'), |
509 | this is the total amount of memory currently available to | 524 | this is the total amount of memory currently available to |
510 | be allocated on the system. This limit is only adhered to | 525 | be allocated on the system. This limit is only adhered to |
@@ -531,8 +546,6 @@ Committed_AS: The amount of memory presently allocated on the system. | |||
531 | above) will not be permitted. This is useful if one needs | 546 | above) will not be permitted. This is useful if one needs |
532 | to guarantee that processes will not fail due to lack of | 547 | to guarantee that processes will not fail due to lack of |
533 | memory once that memory has been successfully allocated. | 548 | memory once that memory has been successfully allocated. |
534 | PageTables: amount of memory dedicated to the lowest level of page | ||
535 | tables. | ||
536 | VmallocTotal: total size of vmalloc memory area | 549 | VmallocTotal: total size of vmalloc memory area |
537 | VmallocUsed: amount of vmalloc area which is used | 550 | VmallocUsed: amount of vmalloc area which is used |
538 | VmallocChunk: largest contigious block of vmalloc area which is free | 551 | VmallocChunk: largest contigious block of vmalloc area which is free |