From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: sanjeev_adwal@yahoo.co.in
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Subject: Re: Correction to documentation at
 https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/kernel-resources.html
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PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
> On https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/kernel-resources.html, the command to
> calculate memory allocated to postgres is not correct. Following is the
> command as shown in 18.4.5. Linux Huge Pages.
> pmap 4170 | awk '/rw-s/ && /zero/ {print $2}', this command does not return
> any results with correct pid. Probably /zero/ needs to be updated with
> /anon_hugepage/

The example seems to work as-given for me (testing on a RHEL8 system).
It's of course not guaranteed to work on every flavor of Linux.

			regards, tom lane