[PATCH] proc.5: meminfo: add not anout network stack memory consumption
From: Mike Rapoport
Date: Tue Oct 13 2020 - 04:07:35 EST
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
man5/proc.5 | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index ed309380b..8414676f1 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5
@@ -3478,6 +3478,14 @@ Except as noted below,
all of the fields have been present since at least Linux 2.6.0.
Some fields are displayed only if the kernel was configured
with various options; those dependencies are noted in the list.
+.IP
+Note that significant part of memory allocated by the network stack
+is not accounted in the file.
+The memory consumption of the network stack can be queried
+using
+.IR /proc/net/sockstat
+or
+.BR ss (8)
.RS
.TP
.IR MemTotal " %lu"
--
2.25.4