[plug] Process memory usage

Christian again at global.net.au
Thu Jan 7 18:40:57 WST 1999


On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Nick Bannon wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 04:22:14PM +0800, Christian wrote:
> 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).

Doesn't actually take up RAM or swap space?  Are you sure that's right?
I've a feeling that the java interpreter is taking up that space because
at one point yesterday it swapped in and that machine thrashed it's guts
out and the load went up to 20. :(

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