Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 23:17:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Hittinger <bugs@ns1.win.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can VSZ < RSS? Huh!? (fwd) Message-ID: <199507070317.XAA02119@ns1.win.net>
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> > > 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". > Are things like shared libraries taken into account here? I probably need to do some source code reading. On one machine in particular I know have around 16-20 simultaneous executions of uucico. On another box I might have a similar number of 'ftpd' or 'httpd' processes. I would assume there is some code sharing which would skew the true figures around :-) Regards, Mark Hittinger bugs@win.net
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