> Previously you said:
>
> 3:31pm up 5 days, 2:09, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> 54 processes: 53 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU0 states: 0.0% user, 0.1% system, 0.0% nice, 99.4% idle
> CPU1 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% system, 0.0% nice, 100.0% idle
> Mem: 899952K av, 556948K used, 343004K free, 0K shrd, 170032K
> buff Swap: 1791208K av, 118408K used, 1672800K free
> 265936K cached
>
>
> Now, I'm confused. Where do you see 15mb or so of memory used?
I was adding up the SIZE field of the processes shown by top.
> 3:31pm up 5 days, 2:09, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> 54 processes: 53 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU0 states: 0.0% user, 0.1% system, 0.0% nice, 99.4% idle
> CPU1 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% system, 0.0% nice, 100.0% idle
> Mem: 899,952K av, 556,948K used, 343,004K free, 0K shrd,
> 170,032K buff Swap: 1,791,208K av, 118,408K used, 1,672,800K free
> 265,936K cached
>
> So I see 1/2 gig used.
thats what I meant.. this thing shows 1/2 gig (actually its 126 MB aftre
removing buff and cache) but the total of processes as seen in top is just
around 15MB.
>
> Also, beware - top shows 2 numbers - total RAM in use currently,
> AND total actual size of the program. Unfortunately top does
> NOT appear to allow you to sort on that 2nd number...
>
> Hmm. So, I added up all the numbers under top, and got 31,088 kbytes.
> Now you've got me wondering. What does ps -axl say?
i'll try that.. unfortunately I rebooted the machine.. so lemme try it again
sarang
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