i got you all beat:)
top:
SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
146M 146M 4040 S 3.1 57.3 7:45 X
top not work right - can't be. gkrellm look better- more real and
gtop say RSS is ~35M.
Look like top is giving "resident", not "resident set size", for
RSS and include what has been swapped out.
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--- Paul Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday, Apr 16, 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote:
>
> > I've got the nvidia drivers in XFree 4.0.3 installed. When I
> type top to
> > see the memory usages of the running tasks, I see that X
> consumes 119M (!).
> > This is, when I've got nothing running but a GDM login
> screen. Methinks,
> > this is quite much....
>
> I think I heard somewhere that it's because the actual card
> keeps like 3
> pages in its own memory, and top doesn't understand that, or
> something
> like that. I have the nvidia drivers too. If you look at your
> tottal
> memory used, you can tell that top isn't reporting the X memory
> right
> (at least I can on mine). I think the total memory used, free,
> etc. is
> a much better indicator.
>
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