stat Process status
statm Process memory status information
status Process status in human readable form
- wchan If CONFIG_KALLSYMS is set, a pre-decoded wchan
+ wchan Present with CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y: it shows the kernel function
+ symbol the task is blocked in - or "0" if not blocked.
pagemap Page table
stack Report full stack trace, enable via CONFIG_STACKTRACE
smaps a extension based on maps, showing the memory consumption of
VmLib: 1412 kB
VmPTE: 20 kb
VmSwap: 0 kB
+ HugetlbPages: 0 kB
Threads: 1
SigQ: 0/28578
SigPnd: 0000000000000000
snapshot of a moment, you can see /proc/<pid>/smaps file and scan page table.
It's slow but very precise.
-Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 3.20.0)
+Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 4.1)
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Field Content
Name filename of the executable
VmExe size of text segment
VmLib size of shared library code
VmPTE size of page table entries
+ VmPMD size of second level page tables
VmSwap size of swap usage (the number of referred swapents)
+ HugetlbPages size of hugetlb memory portions
Threads number of threads
SigQ number of signals queued/max. number for queue
SigPnd bitmap of pending signals for the thread
blocked bitmap of blocked signals
sigign bitmap of ignored signals
sigcatch bitmap of caught signals
- wchan address where process went to sleep
+ 0 (place holder, used to be the wchan address, use /proc/PID/wchan instead)
0 (place holder)
0 (place holder)
exit_signal signal to send to parent thread on exit
Private_Dirty: 0 kB
Referenced: 892 kB
Anonymous: 0 kB
+AnonHugePages: 0 kB
+Shared_Hugetlb: 0 kB
+Private_Hugetlb: 0 kB
Swap: 0 kB
+SwapPss: 0 kB
KernelPageSize: 4 kB
MMUPageSize: 4 kB
-Locked: 374 kB
-VmFlags: rd ex mr mw me de
+Locked: 0 kB
+VmFlags: rd ex mr mw me dw
the first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for the
mapping in /proc/PID/maps. The remaining lines show the size of the mapping
(size), the amount of the mapping that is currently resident in RAM (RSS), the
process' proportional share of this mapping (PSS), the number of clean and
-dirty private pages in the mapping. Note that even a page which is part of a
-MAP_SHARED mapping, but has only a single pte mapped, i.e. is currently used
-by only one process, is accounted as private and not as shared. "Referenced"
-indicates the amount of memory currently marked as referenced or accessed.
+dirty private pages in the mapping.
+
+The "proportional set size" (PSS) of a process is the count of pages it has
+in memory, where each page is divided by the number of processes sharing it.
+So if a process has 1000 pages all to itself, and 1000 shared with one other
+process, its PSS will be 1500.
+Note that even a page which is part of a MAP_SHARED mapping, but has only
+a single pte mapped, i.e. is currently used by only one process, is accounted
+as private and not as shared.
+"Referenced" indicates the amount of memory currently marked as referenced or
+accessed.
"Anonymous" shows the amount of memory that does not belong to any file. Even
a mapping associated with a file may contain anonymous pages: when MAP_PRIVATE
and a page is modified, the file page is replaced by a private anonymous copy.
-"Swap" shows how much would-be-anonymous memory is also used, but out on
-swap.
+"AnonHugePages" shows the ammount of memory backed by transparent hugepage.
+"Shared_Hugetlb" and "Private_Hugetlb" show the ammounts of memory backed by
+hugetlbfs page which is *not* counted in "RSS" or "PSS" field for historical
+reasons. And these are not included in {Shared,Private}_{Clean,Dirty} field.
+"Swap" shows how much would-be-anonymous memory is also used, but out on swap.
+"SwapPss" shows proportional swap share of this mapping.
+"Locked" indicates whether the mapping is locked in memory or not.
"VmFlags" field deserves a separate description. This member represents the kernel
flags associated with the particular virtual memory area in two letter encoded
ac - area is accountable
nr - swap space is not reserved for the area
ht - area uses huge tlb pages
- nl - non-linear mapping
ar - architecture specific flag
dd - do not include area into core dump
sd - soft-dirty flag
> cat /proc/meminfo
-The "Locked" indicates whether the mapping is locked in memory or not.
-
-
MemTotal: 16344972 kB
MemFree: 13634064 kB
MemAvailable: 14836172 kB
---------------------------------------------------------------
When a process is dumped, all anonymous memory is written to a core file as
long as the size of the core file isn't limited. But sometimes we don't want
-to dump some memory segments, for example, huge shared memory. Conversely,
-sometimes we want to save file-backed memory segments into a core file, not
-only the individual files.
+to dump some memory segments, for example, huge shared memory or DAX.
+Conversely, sometimes we want to save file-backed memory segments into a core
+file, not only the individual files.
/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter allows you to customize which memory segments
will be dumped when the <pid> process is dumped. coredump_filter is a bitmask
of memory types. If a bit of the bitmask is set, memory segments of the
corresponding memory type are dumped, otherwise they are not dumped.
-The following 7 memory types are supported:
+The following 9 memory types are supported:
- (bit 0) anonymous private memory
- (bit 1) anonymous shared memory
- (bit 2) file-backed private memory
effective only if the bit 2 is cleared)
- (bit 5) hugetlb private memory
- (bit 6) hugetlb shared memory
+ - (bit 7) DAX private memory
+ - (bit 8) DAX shared memory
Note that MMIO pages such as frame buffer are never dumped and vDSO pages
are always dumped regardless of the bitmask status.
- Note bit 0-4 doesn't effect any hugetlb memory. hugetlb memory are only
- effected by bit 5-6.
+ Note that bits 0-4 don't affect hugetlb or DAX memory. hugetlb memory is
+ only affected by bit 5-6, and DAX is only affected by bits 7-8.
-Default value of coredump_filter is 0x23; this means all anonymous memory
-segments and hugetlb private memory are dumped.
+The default value of coredump_filter is 0x33; this means all anonymous memory
+segments, ELF header pages and hugetlb private memory are dumped.
If you don't want to dump all shared memory segments attached to pid 1234,
-write 0x21 to the process's proc file.
+write 0x31 to the process's proc file.
- $ echo 0x21 > /proc/1234/coredump_filter
+ $ echo 0x31 > /proc/1234/coredump_filter
When a new process is created, the process inherits the bitmask status from its
parent. It is useful to set up coredump_filter before the program runs.
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