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Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drivesOptimizing Linux with cheap flash drivesPosted Feb 25, 2011 21:39 UTC (Fri) by oak (subscriber, #2786)In reply to: Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drives by cladisch Parent article: Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drives
> The biggest problem are shared libraries; the kernel knows who uses them, but it's not clear how their memory should be counted. (Which process gets charged for that memory?
Look at the PSS figures in /proc/PID/smaps file.
Nice tool for that could be e.g. smem: http://www.selenic.com/smem/
(You can just apt-get it and then do "smem --pie=name".)
> And when it exits, does the memory usage of the other processes suddenly increase?)
If you're looking at PSS figures, yes.
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