diff --git a/top/top.1 b/top/top.1 index 1529acea..ab9dfbc4 100644 --- a/top/top.1 +++ b/top/top.1 @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ . .\" Document ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// .\" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -.TH TOP 1 "October 2015" "procps-ng" "User Commands" +.TH TOP 1 "April 2016" "procps-ng" "User Commands" .\" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- .\" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ The memory in quadrant #4, when modified, acts as its own dedicated \*(MS. \fB1\fR | \fB2\fR \fBAnonymous\fR . stack | . malloc() | - . brk()/sbrk() | + . brk()/sbrk() | . POSIX shm* . mmap(PRIVATE, ANON) | . mmap(SHARED, ANON) -----------------------+---------------------- . mmap(PRIVATE, fd) | . mmap(SHARED, fd) @@ -317,13 +317,15 @@ The memory in quadrant #4, when modified, acts as its own dedicated \*(MS. The following may help in interpreting process level memory values displayed as columns and discussed in topic `3a. DESCRIPTIONS of Fields'. + .nf %MEM \- simply RES divided by total \*(MP CODE \- the `pgms' portion of quadrant \fB3\fR - DATA \- the quadrant \fB1\fR portion of VIRT + DATA \- the entire quadrant \fB1\fR portion of VIRT plus all + explicit mmap file-backed pages of quadrant \fB3\fR RES \- anything occupying \*(MP (all quadrants) SHR \- subset of RES (excludes \fB1\fR, includes all \fB2\fR & \fB4\fR, some \fB3\fR) - SWAP \- excludes quadrant \fB4\fR + SWAP \- potentially any quadrant except \fB4\fR USED \- simply the sum of RES and SWAP VIRT \- everything in-use and/or reserved (all quadrants) .fi @@ -677,7 +679,7 @@ any truncated data. .TP 4 6.\fB DATA \*(Em Data + Stack Size (KiB) \fR -The amount of private anonymous memory \fIreserved\fR by a process. +The amount of private memory \fIreserved\fR by a process. It is also known as the Data Resident Set or DRS. Such memory may not yet be mapped to \*(MP (RES) but will always be included in the \*(MV (VIRT) amount.