From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 11 16:17:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E04A16A4BF for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:17:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5811F43FF2 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:17:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h8BNHg48058670; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:17:42 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:17:42 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Jesse Guardiani Message-ID: <20030911231742.GA61528@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: `top` process memory usage: SIZE vs RES X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 23:17:44 -0000 In the last episode (Sep 11), Jesse Guardiani said: > 1.) Where is my Free memory going? I can't account for it > in the SIZE and RES columns of the various processes. > These are relatively constant. Disk cache. > 2.) What, exactly, is RES? `man top` describes it as this: > "RES is the current amount of resident memory", but does > that mean RES is included in SIZE? Or does that mean that > RES should be counted in addition to SIZE? RES the amount of SIZE that it currently in core, and thus should never exceed SIZE (I don't see any processes on my system that do at least). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com