Possible working method to get actual process size on Linux

Per Liden per.liden at oracle.com
Thu Oct 3 12:32:03 UTC 2019


On 10/3/19 2:23 PM, Stefan Reich wrote:
> Hi Per!
> 
> Yes, I saw, sorry for not responding the other time.
> 
> This problem is, /proc/*/smaps_rollup doesn't exist on one of my 
> machines (the one with the oldest kernel). On the newer machines, yeah, 
> it may be an option to use PSS from smaps_rollup.
> 
> Not sure if there are any tools which would help here.

I know some of them (e.g. ps_mem.py), works on older kernels that 
doesn't have /proc/<pid>/smaps_rollup.

cheers,
Per

> 
> Greetings,
> Stefan
> 
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 14:16, Per Liden <per.liden at oracle.com 
> <mailto:per.liden at oracle.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Did you see my reply to your previous question on this topic? Tools to
>     extract this data (PSS) exist. Are they not doing what you want?
> 
>     cheers,
>     Per
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Stefan Reich
> BotCompany.de // Java-based operating systems


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