The documentation for /proc/pid/status does not mention that the value of VmSwap counts only swapped out anonymous private pages and not shmem. This is not obvious, so document this limitation. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> --- I've noticed that proc(5) manpage is currently missing the VmSwap field altogether. Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index a07ba61..d4f56ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -231,6 +231,8 @@ Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 2.6.30-rc7) VmLib size of shared library code VmPTE size of page table entries VmSwap size of swap usage (the number of referred swapents) + by anonymous private data (shmem swap usage is not + included) Threads number of threads SigQ number of signals queued/max. number for queue SigPnd bitmap of pending signals for the thread -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>