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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2025-05-24 19:52:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2025-05-24 19:52:40 +0200 |
| commit | 3d4b940c7c2ff8ad1ced8d109435a522620f4d1b (patch) | |
| tree | 9a8784008a2b81450f997a66ffc02ff06c1dc8a3 | |
| parent | 125f3b3c3ee3b99f94e08214f610bde06a9bb754 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-3d4b940c7c2ff8ad1ced8d109435a522620f4d1b.tar.gz | |
man/man5/proc_meminfo.5: Shmem also accounts for other types of shared memory
Reported-by: Carsten Grohmann <carstengrohmann@gmx.de>
Message-ID: <20250523122617.48cf9feb@max.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man5/proc_meminfo.5 | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/man5/proc_meminfo.5 b/man/man5/proc_meminfo.5 index c7d201f799..ee4ba20622 100644 --- a/man/man5/proc_meminfo.5 +++ b/man/man5/proc_meminfo.5 @@ -150,7 +150,11 @@ such as libraries. .IR Shmem " %lu (since Linux 2.6.32)" Amount of memory consumed in .BR tmpfs (5) -filesystems. +filesystems, +System V, +and POSIX shared memory, +as well as shared anonymous mappings +.RI ( MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS ). .TP .IR KReclaimable " %lu (since Linux 4.20)" Kernel allocations that the kernel will attempt to reclaim |