On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 00:30, Friedrich Locke wrote: > I am monitoring my process using the top program. > I started vim on a file with 55 lines and 939 character. > > Top reports the vim using 6008K of the res column and 2944K of the size > column. > My questions is (based on the fact that res means resident set size > and size means data+stack+text of the process): > > How may a process uses more page of memory than the amount necessary > for the sum of its data, stack and text segments ?
Any other type of allocation, like shm or mmap.
