mem-dirty-code-pages

Manual Reference Pages - MEM-DIRTY-CODE-PAGES (1)


NAME

mem-dirty-code-pages - show amount of dirty code pages in a process

CONTENTS

Synopsis
Description
Example
See Also
Copyright

SYNOPSIS

mem-dirty-code-pages PID1 [ PID2 ... ]

DESCRIPTION

mem-dirty-code-pages outputs how many KB of dirty code pages the given processes have. Such code pages mean that shared library code is not compiled correctly with -fPIC. Bug like this in a common library this can waste a lot of memory.

This information is parsed from the /proc/PID/smaps files.

EXAMPLE

This gives you an overview of the situation in the whole system:
        cd /proc
        mem-dirty-code-pages [0-9]*

SEE ALSO

mem-smaps-private(1)

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2007,2008 Nokia Corporation.

This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 included with the software. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.



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