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Does PSS (Proportional Set Size) number for a process include the memory consumed by kernel code?

I used the smem command to find PSS/USS numbers for a process.

As per the smem man page, "The unshared memory (USS) plus a process's proportion of shared memory is reported as the PSS (Proportional Set Size)."

Now does all the Linux kernel code resident in memory get included when PSS is calculated?

Solution

  • NO it does not contain the kernel portion of memory.