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Re: malloc_stats(3) man page for review


On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 9:17 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro
<kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> and the total number of bytes consumed by in-use allocations.
>>> (These two values correspond to the
>>> .I arena
>>> and
>>> .I uordblks
>>> fields retrieved by
>>> .BR mallinfo (3).)
>>> In addition,
>>> the function prints the sum of these two statistics for all arenas,
>>> and the maximum number of blocks and bytes that were ever simultaneously
>>> allocated using
>>> .BR mmap (2).
>>>
>>
>> If I understand correctly, this function output ?"Total (incl.
>> mmap):\n" header, but
>> "system bytes" and "in use bytes" don't include mmaped chunk. So, It would be
>> nice if a bug section describe it.
>>
>> But I'm not an expert on this area. Please don't 100% trust me.
>
> I'm sorry. I was incorrect. stat work correctly. please forget this.

Okay -- no problem!

Cheers,

Michael

-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/


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