pidstat manual page updated.

Added the description of field %MEM displayed by pidstat -r.

On 06/29/2011 05:43 AM, Carlos Allegri wrote:
> I'm using pidstat version 9.0.6 for monitoring of a mail server.
> I run: "pidstat -r"
> Then, in the output:  "PID  minflt/s  majflt/s     VSZ    RSS   %MEM  Command", I see the column "%MEM" which isn't explained in the manual.
> Could you tell me, which is the meaning of this column?

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index c1373f4e6f36479c4215f931f8c9ca2593c72c03..9532368134afa81dbc9279582cecf192577a5cb7 100644 (file)
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -3,10 +3,14 @@ Changes:
 xxxx/xx/xx: Version 10.0.2 - Sebastien Godard (sysstat <at> orange.fr)
        * sadf modified to make it easier to add new output formats.
          Its design is still not generic anyway.
+       * Option -T added to sadf: This option tells sadf to display
+         timestamps in seconds since the epoch (when applicable).
        * [Jeroen Roovers]: Automate translation files handling in
          Makefile.in.
        * DTD and XSD documents updated.
        * sadf manual page updated.
+       * pidstat manual page updated: Added description of field %MEM
+         displayed by pidstat -r.
        * Various cosmetic changes (sar.c, sadf.c).
        * CREDITS file updated.
 

diff --git a/man/pidstat.1 b/man/pidstat.1
index 50e3104969edb06ec6de4b334571cf08fdbc7999..d20e0c5126cc7b1dca8952984ff28783873df225 100644 (file)
--- a/man/pidstat.1
+++ b/man/pidstat.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH PIDSTAT 1 "JUNE 2010" Linux "Linux User's Manual" -*- nroff -*-
+.TH PIDSTAT 1 "AUGUST 2011" Linux "Linux User's Manual" -*- nroff -*-
 .SH NAME
 pidstat \- Report statistics for Linux tasks.
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -152,6 +152,11 @@ Resident Set Size: The non-swapped physical memory
 used by the task in kilobytes.
 .RE
 
+.B %MEM
+.RS
+The tasks's currently used share of available physical memory.
+.RE
+
 .B Command
 .RS
 The command name of the task.