Re: What is residual memory? Can anyone explain?

2011-12-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 18 December 2011 18:07, Yedidyah Bar-David linux...@didi.bardavid.org wrote: In addition, I also check free memory before running the app, after starting, several times, etc. That's a good practice as well. Do you do it manually or do you have some background tool which collects this data

Re: What is residual memory? Can anyone explain?

2011-12-18 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 08:31:55AM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: On 18 December 2011 18:07, Yedidyah Bar-David linux...@didi.bardavid.org wrote: In addition, I also check free memory before running the app, after starting, several times, etc. That's a good practice as well. Do you do it

Re: What is residual memory? Can anyone explain?

2011-12-17 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 09:22:43PM +0200, Raz wrote: i tend to calculate a process' memory consumption in deltas, meaning, how memory it consumes in addition to the shared sections. So i usually take a look at the write-able and private consumption as reported by pmap. ( pmap pid ). Please

What is residual memory? Can anyone explain?

2011-12-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
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

Re: What is residual memory? Can anyone explain?

2011-12-16 Thread shimi
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.orgwrote: 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

Re: What is residual memory? Can anyone explain?

2011-12-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org writes: 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

Re: What is residual memory? Can anyone explain?

2011-12-16 Thread Raz
i tend to calculate a process' memory consumption in deltas, meaning, how memory it consumes in addition to the shared sections. So i usually take a look at the write-able and private consumption as reported by pmap. ( pmap pid ). Please note, there are numerous discussions of how to estimate