Consider reporting memory usage by mmap

[mangalaman93]

Currently, we report memory usage (currently in use and memory that could be released to OS but still held back) in alpha logs. The sum of these two memories do not sum up to Resident Memory (RSS) reported by tools such as top or htop. The rest of the memory is generally mmaped mostly by badger in terms the .sst files or .vlog files. It would be useful to report that memory in the logs. The information is generally available in /proc/<pid>/smaps and /proc/<pid>/maps.

[mangalaman93]

I wrote a small library for POC https://github.com/grandecola/smaps. Note that, we don't need privileged access to read the /proc/<pid>/smaps for the same process.

[minhaj-shakeel]

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