[plug] Process memory usage

[Nick Bannon]

On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 04:22:14PM +0800, Christian wrote:
> Just a quick question:
> 
> neptune:~# ps aux | egrep 'ishopper|PID'
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM  SIZE   RSS TTY STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> ishopper 26684  0.1  6.8 19996  2116   4 S    15:13   0:01 /logs/java/bin/../bin
> 
> Does this mean that the third process there is using up 20 megabytes of
> RAM?
[...]

Not to worry - most of that is apparently unused mmap() area which doesn't
actually take up your RAM or swap space. The RSS shows how much actual
RAM it's currently taking up (a much more reasonable 2MB).

Nick.

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