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| author | Minto Joseph <mvaliyav@redhat.com> | 2013-09-11 14:24:35 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-09-11 15:59:03 -0700 |
| commit | 4649602265495a3bb776d777c91dba569f4afb5d (patch) | |
| tree | ba4f73203d6e992b917d4d3614439e9ff88f9a9d /Documentation | |
| parent | be49b30a98fe7e20f898fcfe7b6c082700fb96e8 (diff) | |
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: fix mistake in the description of Committed_AS
Fix mistake in the description of Committed_AS in kernel documentation.
Signed-off-by: Minto Joseph <mvaliyav@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 19 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index fcc22c982a25..823c95faebd2 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -854,16 +854,15 @@ Committed_AS: The amount of memory presently allocated on the system. The committed memory is a sum of all of the memory which has been allocated by processes, even if it has not been "used" by them as of yet. A process which malloc()'s 1G - of memory, but only touches 300M of it will only show up - as using 300M of memory even if it has the address space - allocated for the entire 1G. This 1G is memory which has - been "committed" to by the VM and can be used at any time - by the allocating application. With strict overcommit - enabled on the system (mode 2 in 'vm.overcommit_memory'), - allocations which would exceed the CommitLimit (detailed - above) will not be permitted. This is useful if one needs - to guarantee that processes will not fail due to lack of - memory once that memory has been successfully allocated. + of memory, but only touches 300M of it will show up as + using 1G. This 1G is memory which has been "committed" to + by the VM and can be used at any time by the allocating + application. With strict overcommit enabled on the system + (mode 2 in 'vm.overcommit_memory'),allocations which would + exceed the CommitLimit (detailed above) will not be permitted. + This is useful if one needs to guarantee that processes will + not fail due to lack of memory once that memory has been + successfully allocated. VmallocTotal: total size of vmalloc memory area VmallocUsed: amount of vmalloc area which is used VmallocChunk: largest contiguous block of vmalloc area which is free |