Possible working method to get actual process size on Linux

[Stefan Reich]

Addendum - ok, quite obviously the ranges are 000004-000007 etc. (see those
suspicious repeating 38 MB value).

So the only question remains if ZGC always uses these ranges. (What if the
heap gets bigger than that?)

On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 12:19, Stefan Reich <
stefan.reich.maker.of.eye at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I'm still trying to get Linux to report a correct process size when using
> ZGC (the memory multi-mapping issue).
>
> My idea is to parse /proc/pid/smaps. Sadly, I can't see physical addresses
> there, only virtual ones. So I group by virtual address range. Here's what
> I got for an example process with is reported by top as 2.7 GB:
>
> Address range 000000xxxxxxxxxx: 6 MB
> Address range 000004xxxxxxxxxx: 38 MB
> Address range 000007xxxxxxxxxx: 646 MB
> Address range 000008xxxxxxxxxx: 38 MB
> Address range 00000bxxxxxxxxxx: 631 MB
> Address range 000010xxxxxxxxxx: 38 MB
> Address range 000013xxxxxxxxxx: 690 MB
> Address range 00007fxxxxxxxxxx: 726 MB
>
> It appears I have to discount the 07, 0b and 13 ranges to get to a
> reasonable actual process size of 844 MB.
>
> Question: Are these address ranges fixed or does ZGC choose different ones
> depending on heap size? Where exactly do the address ranges begin and end?
>
> As soon as this reporting method works, let's publish it as a standard
> tool for anyone using ZGC on Linux. I can't be the only one who's driven
> nuts by not knowing how big my processes are.
>
> Greetings,
> Stefan
>
> --
> Stefan Reich
> BotCompany.de // Java-based operating systems
>


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