--- man5/proc.5 | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5 index be6b755..123bc8f 100644 --- a/man5/proc.5 +++ b/man5/proc.5 @@ -155,14 +155,14 @@ bits for all file-mapped pages associated with the process. .IP Clearing the PG_Referenced and ACCESSED/YOUNG bits provides a method to measure approximately how much memory a process is using. -One first inspects the values in the "Referenced:" fields +One first inspects the values in the "Referenced" fields for the VMAs shown in .IR /proc/[pid]/smaps to get an idea of the memory footprint of the process. One then clears the PG_Referenced and ACCESSED/YOUNG bits and, after some measured time interval, -once again inspects the values in the "Referenced:" fields +once again inspects the values in the "Referenced" fields to get an idea of the change in memory footprint of the process during the measured interval. If one is interested only in inspecting the selected mapping types, -- 2.0.0.rc0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
