Jim Gettys wrote:
> Don't confuse virtual address space used with RAM consumed: most of that > is shared memory (glibc, pango, gtk+....). > > That's why memphis was written and is in our build: ps gives very > misleading memory usage statistics, unless you really understand what it > is reporting. It does a bit better job accounting for memory used in a > mere-mortal way to understand. This gives even better results: http://lwn.net/Articles/230975/ http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/042407-kernel.html The PSS and USS are are the Right Thing: they give users and developers a honest and accurate figure. The downside is that it would require a very fresh kernel or 13 invasive VM patches. -- // Bernardo Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \X/ One Laptop Per Child - http://www.laptop.org/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
