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What do the lines in /proc/PID/status mean?...
- 11-13-2005 #1Linux Engineer
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/proc/PID/status
What do the lines in /proc/PID/status mean?
- 11-13-2005 #2
They're pretty self explanatory:
Name of the command, state, the Process ID, the process ID of its parent, the groups associated with it, how many threads, etc.
Any specific line?
- 11-14-2005 #3Linux Engineer
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All the Vm lines.
- 11-14-2005 #4
VmSize: The size of the virtual memory allocated to the process
VmLck: The amount of locked memory
VmRSS: The amount of memory mapped in RAM ( instead of swapped out )
VmData: The size of the Data segment
VmStk: The stack size
VmExe: The size of the executable segment
VmLib: The size of the library code
VmPTE: Size of the Page Table entry
- 06-25-2008 #5Just Joined!
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signal related entries?
Can somebody please give me the meaning of each of the below entries of "/proc/<pid>/status"
SigPnd: 0000000000000000
ShdPnd: 0000000000000002
SigBlk: 0000000000000000
SigIgn: 0000000000000000
SigCgt: 0000000000000a22
and how can i interpret the above values.
Thanks in advance
Kiran.


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