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| author | Rodrigo Freire <rfreire@redhat.com> | 2016-01-14 15:21:58 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -0800 |
| commit | 0bc126d460453736c0e03d9da7ae0e9d4fcf86b3 (patch) | |
| tree | 93c98c4e2fe8cec166574fc188a03825fc60db3d /Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt | |
| parent | 6f754ba4cfcc044078d4836056ac45404e1b6e85 (diff) | |
Documentation/filesystems: describe the shared memory usage/accounting
The Shared Memory accounting support is present in Kernel since commit
4b02108ac1b3 ("mm: oom analysis: add shmem vmstat") and in userland
free(1) since 2014. This patch updates the Documentation to reflect
this change.
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Freire <rfreire@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt index 98ef55124158..d392e1505f17 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt @@ -17,10 +17,10 @@ RAM, where you have to create an ordinary filesystem on top. Ramdisks cannot swap and you do not have the possibility to resize them. Since tmpfs lives completely in the page cache and on swap, all tmpfs -pages currently in memory will show up as cached. It will not show up -as shared or something like that. Further on you can check the actual -RAM+swap use of a tmpfs instance with df(1) and du(1). - +pages will be shown as "Shmem" in /proc/meminfo and "Shared" in +free(1). Notice that these counters also include shared memory +(shmem, see ipcs(1)). The most reliable way to get the count is +using df(1) and du(1). tmpfs has the following uses: |