From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 7 06:59:32 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA13414 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 7 Jul 1995 06:59:32 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA13407 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 1995 06:59:31 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with ESMTP id GAA02607; Fri, 7 Jul 1995 06:59:17 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id HAA00230; Fri, 7 Jul 1995 07:00:00 -0700 Message-Id: <199507071400.HAA00230@corbin.Root.COM> To: Mark Hittinger cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can VSZ < RSS? Huh!? (fwd) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 06 Jul 95 23:17:20 EDT." <199507070317.XAA02119@ns1.win.net> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Fri, 07 Jul 1995 07:00:00 -0700 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> >> > 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 No, shared libraries are just plain old mapped files as far as the kernel is concerned. >I would assume there is some code sharing which would skew the true figures >around :-) Yeah. -DG