Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 19:31:51 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: pgf@american.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what's counted in RSS and VSZ? Message-ID: <199511030331.TAA02964@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Nov 95 22:24:48 EST." <199511030324.WAA05749@mozart.american.com>
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> - how can RSS ever be bigger than VSZ? Except for the program binary itself, the VSZ doesn't include mapped files. Shared libraries are mapped files. I thought about "fixing" this, but it is very complicated and probably has too much associated overhead. I may still try to fix it for a future release of FreeBSD. > - why are the VSZ numbers for the two different builds different? In the shared case, the VSZ doesn't include the code in the shared libraries. In the non-shared case it does. > - where would this be documented, if indeed it is documented at > all? (i'm not complaining if it isn't -- i'm mainly curious > about where to look for this kind of info.) It should be documented in the ps manual page, but the information may very well be incomplete or wrong. -DG
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