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@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ indicates the number of page faults which happened since the creation of
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the cgroup; this number can never decrease).
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- - **cache:**
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+ - **cache:**
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the amount of memory used by the processes of this control group
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that can be associated precisely with a block on a block device.
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When you read from and write to files on disk, this amount will
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@@ -149,16 +149,16 @@ the cgroup; this number can never decrease).
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`mmap`). It also accounts for the memory used by
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`tmpfs` mounts, though the reasons are unclear.
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- - **rss:**
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+ - **rss:**
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the amount of memory that *doesn't* correspond to anything on disk:
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stacks, heaps, and anonymous memory maps.
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- - **mapped_file:**
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+ - **mapped_file:**
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indicates the amount of memory mapped by the processes in the
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control group. It doesn't give you information about *how much*
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memory is used; it rather tells you *how* it is used.
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- - **pgfault and pgmajfault:**
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+ - **pgfault and pgmajfault:**
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indicate the number of times that a process of the cgroup triggered
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a "page fault" and a "major fault", respectively. A page fault
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happens when a process accesses a part of its virtual memory space
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@@ -177,10 +177,10 @@ the cgroup; this number can never decrease).
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it just has to duplicate an existing page, or allocate an empty
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page, it's a regular (or "minor") fault.
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- - **swap:**
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+ - **swap:**
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the amount of swap currently used by the processes in this cgroup.
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- - **active_anon and inactive_anon:**
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+ - **active_anon and inactive_anon:**
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the amount of *anonymous* memory that has been identified has
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respectively *active* and *inactive* by the kernel. "Anonymous"
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memory is the memory that is *not* linked to disk pages. In other
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@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ the cgroup; this number can never decrease).
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retagged "active". When the kernel is almost out of memory, and time
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comes to swap out to disk, the kernel will swap "inactive" pages.
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- - **active_file and inactive_file:**
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+ - **active_file and inactive_file:**
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cache memory, with *active* and *inactive* similar to the *anon*
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memory above. The exact formula is cache = **active_file** +
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**inactive_file** + **tmpfs**. The exact rules used by the kernel
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since it can be reclaimed immediately (while anonymous pages and
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dirty/modified pages have to be written to disk first).
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- - **unevictable:**
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+ - **unevictable:**
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the amount of memory that cannot be reclaimed; generally, it will
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account for memory that has been "locked" with `mlock`.
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It is often used by crypto frameworks to make sure that
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secret keys and other sensitive material never gets swapped out to
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disk.
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- - **memory and memsw limits:**
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+ - **memory and memsw limits:**
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These are not really metrics, but a reminder of the limits applied
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to this cgroup. The first one indicates the maximum amount of
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physical memory that can be used by the processes of this control
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@@ -261,21 +261,21 @@ file in the kernel documentation, here is a short list of the most
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relevant ones:
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- - **blkio.sectors:**
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+ - **blkio.sectors:**
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contain the number of 512-bytes sectors read and written by the
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processes member of the cgroup, device by device. Reads and writes
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are merged in a single counter.
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- - **blkio.io_service_bytes:**
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+ - **blkio.io_service_bytes:**
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indicates the number of bytes read and written by the cgroup. It has
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4 counters per device, because for each device, it differentiates
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between synchronous vs. asynchronous I/O, and reads vs. writes.
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- - **blkio.io_serviced:**
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+ - **blkio.io_serviced:**
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the number of I/O operations performed, regardless of their size. It
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also has 4 counters per device.
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- - **blkio.io_queued:**
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+ - **blkio.io_queued:**
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indicates the number of I/O operations currently queued for this
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cgroup. In other words, if the cgroup isn't doing any I/O, this will
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be zero. Note that the opposite is not true. In other words, if
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