Date: 08 Oct 1997 20:32:28 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) To: dg@root.com Cc: Gordon Henderson <gordon@drogon.net>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wheres all my memory going? Message-ID: <xzpoh502jib.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: David Greenman's message of Wed, 08 Oct 1997 07:50:00 -0700 References: <199710081450.HAA20067@implode.root.com>
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David Greenman <dg@root.com> writes: > memory as well. "top" is a poor utility for looking at this sort of thing > since this shows top CPU consumers, not top memory consumers. You really > should be using 'ps -alx' to look at this stuff. Speaking of top, can somebody explain to me why, according to top, some processes have a larger "RES" entry "SIZE" entry? Doesn't "RES" represent just a part of "SIZE"? I've only ever seen this on FreeBSD; on all other Unices I use (Solaris, IRIX, SunOS), "SIZE" is always larger than "RES". -- * Finrod (INTJ) * Unix weenie * dag-erli@ifi.uio.no * cellular +47-92835919 * RFC1123: "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send"
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