Re: Server X process taking 250 Mo - leaking ?

2002-06-18 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 15:31, Ian D. Stewart wrote: Can anybody else shed some light on the difference between SIZE and RSS? Size is how much memory has been allocated through brk(2). RSS is how much is currently paged in. So, a program can (and some do) brk a lot of memory, thus upping their

Re: Server X process taking 250 Mo - leaking ?

2002-06-18 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.18 08:04 Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 15:31, Ian D. Stewart wrote: Can anybody else shed some light on the difference between SIZE and RSS? Size is how much memory has been allocated through brk(2). RSS is how much is currently paged in. So, a program can (and

Re: Server X process taking 250 Mo - leaking ?

2002-06-18 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
So, if I'm understanding this correctly, SIZE indicates how much memory has been reserved for the application (and therefor not available to other applications), Nope. By default at least, Linux will overcommit memory. So, you can run 40 different programs all with a 1GB size. brk just

Re: Server X process taking 250 Mo - leaking ?

2002-06-14 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.13 12:34 Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:14:48AM +0200, Jerome Lacoste wrote: | I have the following in top: | | PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND | 532 root 16 -10 289M 32M 7528 S 54.6 6.5 8:35 XFree86 | | I

Server X process taking 250 Mo - leaking ?

2002-06-13 Thread Jerome Lacoste
I have the following in top: PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 532 root 16 -10 289M 32M 7528 S 54.6 6.5 8:35 XFree86 I think there is a problem there. XFree86 takes way too much space and CPU. Have anybody encountered the same problem? Now

Re: Server X process taking 250 Mo - leaking ?

2002-06-13 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 13 June 2002 11:14, Jerome Lacoste wrote: I have the following in top: PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 532 root 16 -10 289M 32M 7528 S 54.6 6.5 8:35 XFree86 I think there is a problem there. XFree86 takes way too much space

Re: Server X process taking 250 Mo - leaking ?

2002-06-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:14:48AM +0200, Jerome Lacoste wrote: | I have the following in top: | | PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND | 532 root 16 -10 289M 32M 7528 S 54.6 6.5 8:35 XFree86 | | I think there is a problem there. XFree86 takes