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diff --git a/man5/proc_pid_clear_refs.5 b/man5/proc_pid_clear_refs.5 deleted file mode 100644 index 134a3b9..0000000 --- a/man5/proc_pid_clear_refs.5 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,87 +0,0 @@ -.\" Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@yggdrasil.com> -.\" Copyright (C) 2002-2008, 2017, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> -.\" Copyright (C) 2023, Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> -.\" -.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later -.\" -.TH proc_pid_clear_refs 5 2023-09-07 "Linux man-pages 6.7" -.SH NAME -/proc/pid/clear_refs \- reset the PG_Referenced and ACCESSED/YOUNG bits -.SH DESCRIPTION -.TP -.IR /proc/ pid /clear_refs " (since Linux 2.6.22)" -.\" commit b813e931b4c8235bb42e301096ea97dbdee3e8fe (2.6.22) -.\" commit 398499d5f3613c47f2143b8c54a04efb5d7a6da9 (2.6.32) -.\" commit 040fa02077de01c7e08fa75be6125e4ca5636011 (3.11) -.\" -.\" "Clears page referenced bits shown in smaps output" -.\" write-only, writable only by the owner of the process -.IP -This is a write-only file, writable only by owner of the process. -.IP -The following values may be written to the file: -.RS -.TP -1 (since Linux 2.6.22) -.\" Internally: CLEAR_REFS_ALL -Reset the PG_Referenced and ACCESSED/YOUNG -bits for all the pages associated with the process. -(Before Linux 2.6.32, writing any nonzero value to this file -had this effect.) -.TP -2 (since Linux 2.6.32) -.\" Internally: CLEAR_REFS_ANON -Reset the PG_Referenced and ACCESSED/YOUNG -bits for all anonymous pages associated with the process. -.TP -3 (since Linux 2.6.32) -.\" Internally: CLEAR_REFS_MAPPED -Reset the PG_Referenced and ACCESSED/YOUNG -bits for all file-mapped pages associated with the process. -.RE -.IP -Clearing the PG_Referenced and ACCESSED/YOUNG bits provides a method -to measure approximately how much memory a process is using. -One first inspects the values in the "Referenced" fields -for the VMAs shown in -.IR /proc/ pid /smaps -to get an idea of the memory footprint of the -process. -One then clears the PG_Referenced and ACCESSED/YOUNG bits -and, after some measured time interval, -once again inspects the values in the "Referenced" fields -to get an idea of the change in memory footprint of the -process during the measured interval. -If one is interested only in inspecting the selected mapping types, -then the value 2 or 3 can be used instead of 1. -.IP -Further values can be written to affect different properties: -.RS -.TP -4 (since Linux 3.11) -Clear the soft-dirty bit for all the pages associated with the process. -.\" Internally: CLEAR_REFS_SOFT_DIRTY -This is used (in conjunction with -.IR /proc/ pid /pagemap ) -by the check-point restore system to discover which pages of a process -have been dirtied since the file -.IR /proc/ pid /clear_refs -was written to. -.TP -5 (since Linux 4.0) -.\" Internally: CLEAR_REFS_MM_HIWATER_RSS -Reset the peak resident set size ("high water mark") to the process's -current resident set size value. -.RE -.IP -Writing any value to -.IR /proc/ pid /clear_refs -other than those listed above has no effect. -.IP -The -.IR /proc/ pid /clear_refs -file is present only if the -.B CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR -kernel configuration option is enabled. -.SH SEE ALSO -.BR proc (5) |