Thanks so much. We've got much less confusion about this now. Good link,
btw. 

On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 13:07, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
[...]
> Linux uses optimistic memory allocation.  Therefore, vmSize will be
> what has 
> been asked for, but may not be allocated (or is swapped to disk). 
> vmEXE will 
> most likely be shared across all of the httpd processes (copy on
> write).
> 
> I'd be most concerned about vmRSS which is the resident memory size -
> it is 
> how much is in physical memory.
> 
> "I Feel Lucky" on "RSS memory size" yields:
> 
> <https://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-list/2002-February/msg01128.html>
> 
> That has a bit more information.  -- justin
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