PSS/USS (Was: The "iGoogle bug")

Bernardo Innocenti bernie at codewiz.org
Thu Sep 20 17:07:03 EDT 2007


Pádraig Brady wrote:

>> This gives even better results:
>>
>>  http://lwn.net/Articles/230975/
>>  http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/042407-kernel.html
>>
>> The PSS and USS are are the Right Thing: they give users and
>> developers a honest and accurate figure.
>>
>> The downside is that it would require a very fresh kernel or 13
>> invasive VM patches.
>>
> 
> I've just updated my ps_mem.py tool to use PSS when available:
> http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ps_mem.py

Cool!

But I don't see the PSS support in 2.6.23, and the patchset originally
posted on the lkml is stale.

Where does up-to-date kernel support for PSS live?

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