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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 19:02:34 -0500
From: Peter Berger <peterb@peterb.pp.psc.edu>
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here's an interesting cut from a "ps -auxw" listing:

peterb     870  4.2  6.5   292  944  p3  SN    7:00PM    0:00.18 ./rxvt -bg 
			   VSZ  RSS

Can someone explain to me how RSS can possibly be larger than VSZ?  I
thought VSZ necessarily included the portion of the executable resident
in memory.

Yours in confusion,

Peter