On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 02:17, John Sturgeon wrote:
> Thanks Dan,
> 
> Strangely, gtop does total up this memory usage.  I would say this is
> indeed a bug in gtop.

And a very well known one.  This confusion comes up quite frequently...

Dan


> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> John <><
> 
> On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 18:00, Dan Winship wrote:
>     On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 19:31, John Sturgeon wrote:
>     > Looking at the evolution processes running, I come across *several* (20)
>     > evolution-executive-summary' processes:
>     ...
>     > each one taking up a whoping 10Mbtyes of memory.
>     
>     That's how linux represents threads. It's actually one process with 20
>     threads, each using the *same* 10M.
>     
>     The summary uses gnome-vfs to read web sites, so it ends up spawning a
>     separate thread for each weather and RDF site in your summary.
>     
>     -- Dan
> 
> 
> 
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