On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 10:58:58AM -0500, Brian J. Stults wrote: > Yes, I've noticed the same. When I do a "ps aux", I get staroffice > using 236MB of memory. It's certainly not true. What I actually get is > 7 instances of staroffice using 33.7MB each. I've been assuming that > this really indicates it's using 33.7MB total. That still means > staroffice is a hog, but at least it's more realistic.
Most process information programs don't handle threaded applications too well (there must be a reason, but i have no idea what it is). StarOffice has multiple threads which all share that 33.7MB, so ps/gtop/etc reports each thread as using that much memory. -- finger for GPG public key. 8 Jan 2000 - Old email addresses removed from key, new added
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