Re: per-process shared information

From: Andrea Arcangeli
Date: Fri Oct 15 2004 - 13:47:29 EST


On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:30:25AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> I just checked in with some Oracle people and the primary concern
> is splitting up RSS into shared and private. Given either shared
> or private the other is calculable.

can you define private a bit more? Is private the page_count == 1 like
2.4? Or is "private" == anonymous? that's the only question.

In Hugh's patch private == "anonymous". With 2.4 private == "page_count
== 1" (which is a subset of anonymous).
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