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To: Carl Makin <cmakin@nla.gov.au>
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Subject: Re: Linux faster thasn FreeBSD 
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From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> > > > Helper?) that uses another 7Mb.  I've seen several of these "DNS Helpers"
> > that 7MB is shared with the parent; all it's using for itself are the 
> Ahhh, now that would make sense! :)  That sort of thing would seem
> difficult to pick up from "top" or ps -aux. Are there any tools that will
> look at that?

It's a nontrivial thing to establish, as it would require traversal of 
all the page data for interrrelated processes.  It's possible that you 
could examine the /proc/<pid>/map files for the parent and child and 
learn something; I'm not sure about that though.

mike