Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 01:28:38 +0100 From: Matthias Petermann <matthias@petermann-it.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD9.2: Tomcat process with very high memory allocation Message-ID: <5293EB36.9000303@petermann-it.de> In-Reply-To: <CAFG2KCLAN6D9mRjFsNzuA7sJaZb0oq2NKw5mPKbAznX5QxKpeA@mail.gmail.com> References: <5293C7F7.6040503@d2ux.org> <CAFG2KCLAN6D9mRjFsNzuA7sJaZb0oq2NKw5mPKbAznX5QxKpeA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello Anton, On 11/25/2013 11:08 PM, Anton Sayetsky wrote: > There is _no_ problem. Tomcat has 9 GiB of virtual memory and 439 MiB > of resident. > The actual amount of really used mem is 439 MiB. > Virtual contains all memory that theoretically can be used (but NOT > allocated at a point of time in contrast of res) by process, all > shared libraries that it used etc etc. In practice, virt memory shows > nothing helpful. > You should take a look on only resident memory of processes in most cases. > http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-is-difference-among-virt-res-and.html Just for curiosity - is there a way to display all (theoretically) used virtual memory of a process? So I'd like to understand how it calculates the total size shown in top. Many thanks in advance. Best regards, Matthias
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