From cea1c2d52c4c65e50b9ab7527d863ce19a93b22d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anthony Nandaa <profnandaa@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 01:06:52 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] doc: adds details about rss on process.memoryUsage

`process.memoryUsage()` returns an object with 4 keys: `rss,
heapTotal, headUsed, external`. There were brief explanations for
the rest except `rss`. This commit adds this on the docs.
---
 doc/api/process.md | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/api/process.md b/doc/api/process.md
index 2ab83806d4d1c5..4a74eb90a71c83 100644
--- a/doc/api/process.md
+++ b/doc/api/process.md
@@ -1282,7 +1282,12 @@ Will generate:
 
 `heapTotal` and `heapUsed` refer to V8's memory usage.
 `external` refers to the memory usage of C++ objects bound to JavaScript
-objects managed by V8.
+objects managed by V8. `rss`, Resident Set Size, is the total space allocated in
+memory for the process, which includes the _heap_, _code segment_ and _stack_.
+
+The _heap_ is where objects, strings and closures are stored. Variables are
+stored in the _stack_ and the actual JavaScript code resides in the
+_code segment_.
 
 ## process.nextTick(callback[, ...args])
 <!-- YAML

From 441a4992a4a8ddf400e7e05363df93105c175f6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anthony Nandaa <profnandaa@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 10:07:59 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] doc: adds more clarity on rss

A little more clarity on `rss` to help people disambiguate it from
the virtual memory size.

Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/16566#discussion_r147545405
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 doc/api/process.md | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/api/process.md b/doc/api/process.md
index 4a74eb90a71c83..7d30677e198b1c 100644
--- a/doc/api/process.md
+++ b/doc/api/process.md
@@ -1282,8 +1282,9 @@ Will generate:
 
 `heapTotal` and `heapUsed` refer to V8's memory usage.
 `external` refers to the memory usage of C++ objects bound to JavaScript
-objects managed by V8. `rss`, Resident Set Size, is the total space allocated in
-memory for the process, which includes the _heap_, _code segment_ and _stack_.
+objects managed by V8. `rss`, Resident Set Size, is the amount of space
+occupied in the main memory device (that is a subset of the total allocated
+memory) for the process, which includes the _heap_, _code segment_ and _stack_.
 
 The _heap_ is where objects, strings and closures are stored. Variables are
 stored in the _stack_ and the actual JavaScript code resides in the