On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> ===========================
> before mozilla started
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 62900 61348 1552 52652 4852 24500
> -/+ buffers/cache: 31996 30904
> Swap: 120448 384 120064
> =============
> memwithmozilla
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 62900 61348 1552 20088 1324 17544
> -/+ buffers/cache: 42480 20420
> Swap: 120448 18336 102112
so quite a bit ( ~1750 ) goes into swap, because free memory is low now (1552)
But it is not Mozilla which got swapped, some old pages where put there
and Mozilla took up the freed space. Note both cache and buffers have
been freed substantially ( around 9MB) .
so mozilla is taking up around 18 + 9 = 27 MB approx
> =====================
> mem after removal of mozilla
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 62900 40440 22460 11020 1424 23672
> -/+ buffers/cache: 15344 47556
> Swap: 120448 18704 101744
> =====================
swap remains as it is, but mozilla freed from main memory.
> mem after restarting of mozilla
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 62900 60656 2244 26476 1308 20096
> -/+ buffers/cache: 39252 23648
> Swap: 120448 30808 89640
since there was quite a bit of free memory, mozilla takes that up. But I
am surprised at the swap used, ( a total of 32 MB, has been added
including swap )
These are all surmises, a top will get some more specific info, you can
also try memprof t see the amount of memory mozilla is actually using.
-- sreangsu
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