Update documentation for system.process.memory fields to include clar…

…ification on Windows memory terminology (elastic#17268) * update field description * update changelog * fix naming * update (cherry picked from commit 66f23dc)
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diff --git a/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc b/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
@@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ https://github.com/elastic/beats/compare/v7.0.0-alpha2...master[Check the HEAD d
 - Update RPM packages contained in Beat Docker images. {issue}17035[17035]
 - Add Kerberos support to Kafka input and output. {pull}16781[16781]
 - Update supported versions of `redis` output. {pull}17198[17198]
+- Update documentation for system.process.memory fields to include clarification on Windows os's. {pull}17268[17268]
 
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diff --git a/metricbeat/docs/fields.asciidoc b/metricbeat/docs/fields.asciidoc
@@ -36067,7 +36067,7 @@ Memory-specific statistics per process.
 *`system.process.memory.size`*::
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-The total virtual memory the process has.
+The total virtual memory the process has. On Windows this represents the Commit Charge (the total amount of memory that the memory manager has committed for a running process) value in bytes for this process.
 
 
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@@ -36079,7 +36079,7 @@ format: bytes
 *`system.process.memory.rss.bytes`*::
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-The Resident Set Size. The amount of memory the process occupied in main memory (RAM).
+The Resident Set Size. The amount of memory the process occupied in main memory (RAM). On Windows this represents the current working set size, in bytes.
 
 
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