Re: time cat /proc/*/statm ?

[Albert Cahalan]

Roger Luethi writes:

> Why does top still read /proc/*/statm anyway?
> It's not as if top actually ever used that
> information (the top I looked at at the time,
> that is). I submitted a patch a few months ago
> to remove statm because it is a) broken and
> b) redundant. The message containing detailed
> reasoning should be in the linux-mm archives.

top (from procps-3.1.14 at least) only reads
the /proc/*/statm files when you activate
columns that need the statm data. Those are:

%MEM   Memory usage (RES) 
VIRT   Virtual Image (kb) 
SWAP   Swapped size (kb) 
RES    Resident size (kb) 
CODE   Code size (kb) 
DATA   Data+Stack size (kb) 
SHR    Shared Mem size (kb)
nDRT   Dirty Pages count 

By default, some of those get displayed.
The default includes: VIRT RES SHR %MEM

To get rid of those, type this:
   f  o  q  t  n  enter  W
(the "W" writes out a config file)

In case your top is too old for this, you
can go to http://procps.sf.net/ for a new one.


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