What does pss mean in /proc/pid/smaps

I was confused about the Pss column in /proc/pid/smaps, so I wrote a program to test it: void sa(); int main(int argc,char *argv[]) { int fd; sa(); sleep(1000); } void sa() { char *pi=new char[1024*1024*10]; for(int i=0;i<4;++i) { for(int j=0;j<1024*1024;++j){ *pi='o'; pi++; } } int cnt; for(int i=0;i<6;++i) { for(int j=0;j<1024*1024;++j){ cnt+=*pi; pi++; } } printf("%d",cnt); } $cat /proc/`pidof