On Friday 22 September 2006 12:44, Carl wrote: > 1. When I do a ps aux, how is the VSZ column calculated and what exactly > does it mean?
virtual size. this is total memory referenced from the application and includes all sorts of things including shared lib usage. it's not representative of the actual memory usage. > 2. On my system, if I add up all of the RSS memory listed from ps it > doesn't add up to the used -/+ buffers/cache listed from the free > command. There is about 14MB unaccounted for. What is using the memory > not listed from ps? ps and top for that matter are not accurate. they are approximate only. if you need precise numbers consider using tools designed for that, such as valgrind or exmap (http://www.berthels.co.uk/exmap/) is the memory leak in software you've written or someone else's? -- Aaron J. Seigo Undulate Your Wantonness GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 Full time KDE developer sponsored by Trolltech (http://www.trolltech.com)
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