From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 29 19:34:11 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1233) id 2360C1065672; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:34:11 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:34:11 +0000 From: Alexander Best To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120129193411.GA19304@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: issue with limiting java's memory usage X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:34:11 -0000 hi there, maybe i'm missing something obvious, but i don't quite understand the following top(1) output: last pid: 13875; load averages: 0.73, 0.75, 0.68 65 processes: 2 running, 62 sleeping, 1 waiting CPU 0: 19.5% user, 0.0% nice, 13.3% system, 0.0% interrupt, 67.2% idle CPU 1: 20.3% user, 0.0% nice, 7.8% system, 0.0% interrupt, 71.9% idle Mem: 1365M Active, 185M Inact, 323M Wired, 69M Cache, 213M Buf, 32M Free Swap: 10G Total, 2494M Used, 7746M Free, 24% Inuse, 4K In PID UID THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 6913 1001 32 20 0 4252M 1312M uwait 0 18.3H 39.06% /usr/local/diablo-jdk1.6.0/bin/java -Xmx512m -jar JDownloade ...how can the size of the resident memory of pid 6913 be > 512 megabytes? this is wth a very recent HEAD on amd64. cheers. alex