On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 23:38 +0100, Michele Schiavo wrote: > on me, it aet 413.9 of virtual and 44.9 of resident...... >
Ok, here's is what I found. Both my 32-bit GNOME boxes show about 70-80MB VIRT for gnome-panel. My x64 box shows 303MB. Moreover, top shows the following top memory munchers: Process VIRT RES ----------------------------- epiphany 747MB 104MB pidgin 502MB 47MB evolution 597MB 43MB nautilus 483MB 41MB gnome-panel 303MB 32MB ----------- Total 2632MB 267MB However "free" shows only 643MB in total used (including buffers/cache) with no swap. According to the top man page VIRT = SWAP + RES, but obviously that doesn't add up. But the RES for gnome-panel is similar on both my 32- and 64-bit machines. So I'm guessing something on the 64bit machines is getting reported/translated differently. Maybe someone smarter than me can comment on this.
