top/ps: is Active Memory = sum(resident set size)?

2010-01-12 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
This has probably been discussed before, so apology for asking the same question again. Should the Active memory, as reported by top(1), be equal to the sum of rss (the real memory (resident set) size of the process) of all processes, as reported by ps(1)? The sum of ps(1) rss fields is probably

Re: top/ps: is Active Memory = sum(resident set size)?

2010-01-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 12, 2010, at 6:17 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Should the Active memory, as reported by top(1), be equal to the sum of rss (the real memory (resident set) size of the process) of all processes, as reported by ps(1)? No. They aren't measuring the same thing; in a system with