From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 8 11:38:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA06507 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 11:38:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA06500 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 11:38:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 20:32:30 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 20:32:29 +0200 (MET DST) To: dg@root.com Cc: Gordon Henderson , Mike Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wheres all my memory going? References: <199710081450.HAA20067@implode.root.com> Organization: Not unless it can't be avoided. X-url: http://www.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) Date: 08 Oct 1997 20:32:28 +0200 In-Reply-To: David Greenman's message of Wed, 08 Oct 1997 07:50:00 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David Greenman 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"