On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 14:59 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Investigating why my computer had suddenly become very s.l.o.w, I > noticed that virtual memory usage had become very large. In particular > the usage by evolution and evolution-data-server look large, amounting > together to only a little less than 2 GBytes. Can anyone explain this? > Following are their entries extracted from "$ ps axuw". > > PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > 2656 1.2 5.2 1668576 53708 ? Sl 12:20 1:26 evolution > 2827 0.0 0.2 313216 2804 ? Sl 12:21 0:00 > /usr/libexec/evolution-data-server-2.24 ... > > For an old-line embedded systems programmer, who used to think in terms > of KBytes, this looks a little excessive.
The column you should look at is RSS (Resident Set Size). The rest of the memory is shared libraries. The %MEM column is also illustrative. If Evo was really occupying 2GB and accounts for 5% of memory, you must have 40GB on your machine. Impressive :-) poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
