From e4fb8b5c048eca92560a5571fe6bebcc615aaace Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dis Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 05:31:21 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] remove PRES, it's done --- docs/developer/gsocprojectspage/index.mdwn | 26 -------------------------- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/developer/gsocprojectspage/index.mdwn b/docs/developer/gsocprojectspage/index.mdwn index 3af66ee..5ad6c2a 100644 --- a/docs/developer/gsocprojectspage/index.mdwn +++ b/docs/developer/gsocprojectspage/index.mdwn @@ -264,30 +264,4 @@ Meta information: --- -##### Proportional RSS - -The Resident Stack Size displayed by top keeps track of the number of resident pages in -a certain process's adress space. It is very useful to locate memory hogs, but doesn't take -into account page sharing. For example, if N processes map library L and L's resident pages -are 1G, this 1G is added to the RSS of all N processes. A more useful number would be the -Proportional (or Effective) RSS, for which we divide the number of mapped shared pages by -the number of processes sharing each page. So in the previous example we would add 1GB/N -to each process that has L mapped. - -The goal of this project is to hack the kernel to allow for effective calculation of the -Proportional RSS and modify top to use it in addition to the RSS (i.e. it should display it by -default and be able to sort based on it). - -Meta information: - -* Prerequisites: C, Elementary OS internals -* Difficulty: Easy -* Contact point: Aggelos Economopoulos - -Status: - -* Possibly in-progress - ---- - (please add) -- 1.7.7.2