On 22 Jan 2002 at 12:15, naveen_dhankhar wrote: > Hi, > I have a little query regarding % Memory used > When I type top command it is showing % Mem used by >varios process instance and if I tried to calculate the total Mem used then it >goes more than 100%
This is because on linux, memory is shared as far as possible. Code of executables is shared between instances of that processes. Even if a process needs it's own copy of some memory and it's shared, a separate copy is not made until process actually writes to that memory location. that's called as copy on write scheme. For accurate statistics use free. However it's won't tell you memory usage process by process. It's quite difficult to produce such a statistic. Shridhar _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
