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From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
To: "Helge Hafting" <helgehaf@idb.hist.no>,
	"Gregory Maxwell" <greg@linuxpower.cx>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Process vs. Threads
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 19:09:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <012301c0a77f$878995c0$7c4cf9d1@geeksparadise.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010306172843.D1283@hpspss3g.spain.hp.com> <20010306115822.A2244@xi.linuxpower.cx> <3AA5F8E1.AC570516@idb.hist.no>



> Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>
> >
> > There are no threads in Linux.
> > All tasks are processes.
> > Processes can share any or none of a vast set of resources.
> >
> Is there a way a user program can find out what resources
> are shared among which processes?
>
> That would allow enhancing ps, top, etc to
> report memory usage correctly.

    In fact, 'top' does report memory usage correctly. What 'top' should do,
however, is (by default) suppress the display of additional processes that
share a vm, showing only the 'highest parent' in the tree of processes that
share a vm.

    DS




  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-03-08  3:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-06 16:28 Jorge David Ortiz Fuentes
2001-03-06 16:58 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-03-07  9:01   ` Helge Hafting
2001-03-07 23:30     ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-03-08  3:09     ` David Schwartz [this message]
2001-03-06 17:01 Dan Kegel
2001-03-06 17:32 ` Ulf Carlsson
2001-03-08  0:17 Hank Leininger
2001-03-09  9:48 ` Albert D. Cahalan

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