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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2013-09-20 12:00:42 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2013-09-20 12:01:01 +0200 |
| commit | 40a0c68ca9b49fb3e7292c1bae035ba5bcb27903 (patch) | |
| tree | 11682834d3442d4640c4464709a76a268869ffbd /Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |
| parent | c61037e905a5cb74c7d786c35ee2cdbab9ed63af (diff) | |
| parent | 7e3115ef5149fc502e3a2e80719dba54a8e7409d (diff) | |
Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core
Merge in the latest fixes before applying a dependent patch.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 19 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index fcc22c982a2..823c95faebd 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -854,16 +854,15 @@ Committed_AS: The amount of memory presently allocated on the system. The committed memory is a sum of all of the memory which has been allocated by processes, even if it has not been "used" by them as of yet. A process which malloc()'s 1G - of memory, but only touches 300M of it will only show up - as using 300M of memory even if it has the address space - allocated for the entire 1G. This 1G is memory which has - been "committed" to by the VM and can be used at any time - by the allocating application. With strict overcommit - enabled on the system (mode 2 in 'vm.overcommit_memory'), - allocations which would exceed the CommitLimit (detailed - above) will not be permitted. This is useful if one needs - to guarantee that processes will not fail due to lack of - memory once that memory has been successfully allocated. + of memory, but only touches 300M of it will show up as + using 1G. This 1G is memory which has been "committed" to + by the VM and can be used at any time by the allocating + application. With strict overcommit enabled on the system + (mode 2 in 'vm.overcommit_memory'),allocations which would + exceed the CommitLimit (detailed above) will not be permitted. + This is useful if one needs to guarantee that processes will + not fail due to lack of memory once that memory has been + successfully allocated. VmallocTotal: total size of vmalloc memory area VmallocUsed: amount of vmalloc area which is used VmallocChunk: largest contiguous block of vmalloc area which is free |