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diff --git a/man/man5/proc_pid_statm.5 b/man/man5/proc_pid_statm.5 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1d0045a53 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man5/proc_pid_statm.5 @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +.\" Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@yggdrasil.com> +.\" Copyright (C) 2002-2008, 2017, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +.\" Copyright (C) 2023, Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later +.\" +.TH proc_pid_statm 5 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +/proc/pid/statm \- memory usage information +.SH DESCRIPTION +.TP +.IR /proc/ pid /statm +Provides information about memory usage, measured in pages. +The columns are: +.IP +.in +4n +.EX +size (1) total program size + (same as VmSize in \fI/proc/\fPpid\fI/status\fP) +resident (2) resident set size + (inaccurate; same as VmRSS in \fI/proc/\fPpid\fI/status\fP) +shared (3) number of resident shared pages + (i.e., backed by a file) + (inaccurate; same as RssFile+RssShmem in + \fI/proc/\fPpid\fI/status\fP) +text (4) text (code) +.\" (not including libs; broken, includes data segment) +lib (5) library (unused since Linux 2.6; always 0) +data (6) data + stack +.\" (including libs; broken, includes library text) +dt (7) dirty pages (unused since Linux 2.6; always 0) +.EE +.in +.IP +.\" See SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING in the kernel. +.\" Inaccuracy is bounded by TASK_RSS_EVENTS_THRESH. +Some of these values are inaccurate because +of a kernel-internal scalability optimization. +If accurate values are required, use +.IR /proc/ pid /smaps +or +.IR /proc/ pid /smaps_rollup +instead, which are much slower but provide accurate, detailed information. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR proc (5), +.BR proc_pid_status (5) |