maps4: add proportional set size accounting in smaps
The "proportional set size" (PSS) of a process is the count of pages it has in memory, where each page is divided by the number of processes sharing it. So if a process has 1000 pages all to itself, and 1000 shared with one other process, its PSS will be 1500. - lwn.net: "ELC: How much memory are applications really using?" The PSS proposed by Matt Mackall is a very nice metic for measuring an process's memory footprint. So collect and export it via /proc/<pid>/smaps. Matt Mackall's pagemap/kpagemap and John Berthels's exmap can also do the job. They are comprehensive tools. But for PSS, let's do it in the simple way. Cc: John Berthels <jjberthels@gmail.com> Cc: Bernardo Innocenti <bernie@codewiz.org> Cc: Padraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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