On 2009-03-25 15:30:34 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2009-03-25 13:27:22 +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
> > The very simple reason for this is that memstat gets its data from
> > /proc/$pic/maps. The status file does not have all the data
> > memstat needs.
>
> OK, but this should be documented in the man page.
Well, at least the man page must be fixed. It currently says:
memstat lists all the processes, executables, and shared libraries
^^^
that are using up virtual memory.
But IMHO, memstat should also output a warning message if it can't
get all the needed data.
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