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On Freitag, 27. Dezember 2013, 00:42:06 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> What column in htop shows that number? |
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> top, htop, and all their friends do not display what most people assume |
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> they display. Modern OSes (for more than a decade now) manage memory in |
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> a way that makes it impossible to answer "how much memory is this app |
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> using?" |
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> If you are looking at the VIRT column, just ignore it, that column is |
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> practically useless for most rational viewings of {h,}top |
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I know, the VIRT column shows the size of the virtual adress space of the |
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process, and this has nothing to do with the real, physical amount of memory |
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allocated. |
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The RES column shows the resident memory, i.e. those pages actually in use and |
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kept in memory, exclusive those pages swapped out. This column shows currently |
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1185M (after rebooting this morning) |
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Best regards |
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Alex |
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