On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi all. > > I reported a bug in Amarok ( https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=288876 ) > where it sometimes consumes over 10% of my RAM on startup, and it was > closed > with this comment: > > <<<< > Well, there is the virtual memory but it is the residual memory use that > matters. Yours us just 371M which is absolutely correct. > FWIW: I suggest you read up some documentation on dynamic memory use in > Linux. > In short: the more memory available, the more will be used, the system > distributes this evenly to the running processes depending on their > priority. > > Not a bug. > >>>> > > Well, I don't understand it. What is "residual memory" in this context (as > Google searches for it yields junk.), and why is still OK that Amarok > consumes > so much. > > Any insights would be appreciated. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > > I would assume he meant RSS[1], as opposed to VSZ ('VIRT' in 'top'). A program can ask for a huge amount of memory but not use it, so it won't actually waste your resources... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_set_size -- Shimi
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