Hello:
> In Xosview, I see 140Mb memory usage.. which is around 80Mb user+shared and
> remaining buff+cache.. this matches with the output of free
>
> but, gtop shows radically high memory usage!!.. it shows 250 Mb total for
> resident sizes.. 164Mb for total of shared sizes, 560MB as sum of virtual
> sizes... what is all this??
Relax, man -- you are seeing thread memory usage being totalled. This
gives a false picture; if a series of thread are shown in top, ktop or
gtop, the total consumption is equal to the single thread value.
> I want to find out how much is kde2 using.. and gtop is totally weird in
> this regard!
See above. =)
-Stephen-
