From 3d4b940c7c2ff8ad1ced8d109435a522620f4d1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alejandro Colomar Date: Sat, 24 May 2025 19:52:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] man/man5/proc_meminfo.5: Shmem also accounts for other types of shared memory Reported-by: Carsten Grohmann Message-ID: <20250523122617.48cf9feb@max.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar --- man/man5/proc_meminfo.5 | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man/man5/proc_meminfo.5 b/man/man5/proc_meminfo.5 index c7d201f79..ee4ba2062 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 -- 2.47.2