From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 6 19:59:09 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA14017 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 19:59:09 -0700 Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA14011 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 19:59:07 -0700 Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA00745; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 22:59:51 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 22:59:51 -0400 From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199507070259.WAA00745@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, davidg@root.com Subject: Re: How can VSZ < RSS? Huh!? X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In lists.freebsd.hackers you write: > I've "threatened" on more than one occasion to report the _actual_ amount >of allocated virtual memory, but got mixed reponses each time I've done that. >The current VSZ figure does not take into consideration mapped files other >than the executable. It also does not consider the "heap". Please please DO! Those numbers are fairly useless if they dont report actual memory usage. -Crh -- Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/