On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, moses wrote: > Hi all > > The man page doesn't *really* say what it's .Does anyone know what is the > exact meaning of this field - it's hard to belive that rss is the the number > if current memory resident in 1024 bytes. I run several examples that show > it > > the man page for rss >
from http://nscp.upenn.edu/aix4.3html/aixbman/prftungd/memoryuse.htm , which is for AIX, but I guess it might be the same for Linux: RSS Real-memory (resident set) size in kilobytes of the process. This number is equal to the sum of the number of working-segment and code-segment pages in memory times 4. Remember that code-segment pages are shared among all of the currently running instances of the program. If 26 ksh processes are running, only one copy of any given page of the ksh executable would be in memory, but ps would report that code-segment size as part of the RSS of each instance of ksh. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
