Re: top res column > size column

2012-08-11 Thread Friedrich Locke
Sorry for my mistaken, but according the manual page for the top utility, the SIZE column is: The total size of the process (the text, data, and stack segments). On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 1:51 AM, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 00:30, Friedrich Locke wrote: >> I am monitoring my pro

Re: top res column > size column

2012-08-10 Thread Ted Unangst
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 m

Re: top res column > size column

2012-08-10 Thread Philip Guenther
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Friedrich Locke wrote: > How may a process uses more page of memory than the amount necessary > for the sum of its data, stack and text segments ? In your understanding, against which of those (data, stack, text) do the pages of an mmap() of a file or device count