Date: Fri, 07 Jul 1995 07:00:00 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Mark Hittinger <bugs@ns1.win.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can VSZ < RSS? Huh!? (fwd) Message-ID: <199507071400.HAA00230@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Jul 95 23:17:20 EDT." <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 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
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