Doing it for the kids, man

Doing it for the kids, man

Posted Oct 29, 2006 19:51 UTC (Sun) by Tara_Li (subscriber, #26706)
In reply to: Doing it for the kids, man by nix
Parent article: Doing it for the kids, man: Children's laptop inspires open source projects (LinuxWorld)

It's starting to sound like the one tool Linux *desperately* needs is a *REAL* way to sort out memory usage - what's swapped out, what's memory mapped in from some device, what belongs to what program or library, which programs are sharing which pieces from which libraries, and stuff like that. It doesn't seem to be a simple problem, considering how many different answers you get from ps, pmap, xrestop, and one I can't remember right now that uses a kernel module to tag memory allocations...

It might help settle arguments about who's actually leaking memory.

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