Daniel J. Mashao wrote: > USER PID %CPU %MEM NI VSZ RSS SHRD TT STAT TIME COMMAND > daniel 3418 98.0 88.4 4 989M3 110M6 364 ? R N 425:45 train -iter > > How can my program use 989M3 of virtual memory while I only have 128M > real memory and 138 Swap memory. I am assuming that 989M3 means 989.3 > Megabytes - is that correct?
Hm, I don't know what the Mn prfix is supposed to mean. However, your confusion over what VSZ means is understandable and easily cleared up. VSZ is the "virtual size" of the program. Virtual size means how much memory the process has allocated for use. This doen't mean it's using all that memory. Linux will let a process allocate more memory than the total memory + swap of the system -- there is no problem until the program actually tries to use all of it. The amount of memory your program is actually using is under the RSS column. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
