> Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>
> >
> > There are no threads in Linux.
> > All tasks are processes.
> > Processes can share any or none of a vast set of resources.
> >
> Is there a way a user program can find out what resources
> are shared among which processes?
>
> That would allow enhancing ps, top, etc to
> report memory usage correctly.
In fact, 'top' does report memory usage correctly. What 'top' should do,
however, is (by default) suppress the display of additional processes that
share a vm, showing only the 'highest parent' in the tree of processes that
share a vm.
DS
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