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Am 19.09.2010 13:34, schrieb Alex Schuster: |
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> Alan McKinnon writes: |
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>> Like I posted in another thread today, the memory columns in top do not |
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>> mean what most people think they mean, nor are they simplistic. |
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> You gave the example of Thunderbird using 150M and Firefox 180M, but |
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> together they would not use 330M because some stuff is shared. Hm, isn't |
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> this what the SHR column in top is for? In Florian's case, there is |
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> firefox with 484M in the RES column and thunderbird with 146M, but the SHA |
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> column gives 10M + 15M, so only 25M of 630M are shared? |
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I thought the SHR column is about shared memory like System-V SHM, mmap |
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and Pipes when used for inter-process communication. But I could be wrong. |
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