On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 01:05:39PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: > Another weird thing is that a quick calculation would have the VIRT > usage of the system very close to the total memory available (1GB > physical + 1GB swap), yet the top output above shows more then half > of memory to be available(!).
"VIRT" usage is the total of things mapped into a process's addressing space. So it includes mmaped files, video card RAM (for the X server), shared memory (mapped several times, but allocated only once), ... It doesn't have much to do with physical (or even virtual) RAM consumption. -- Lionel ================================================================= 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]
