On 05/25/2011 09:59 AM, Robert Kaiser wrote: > NoOp schrieb: >> memstat lists all accessible processes, executables, and shared >> libraries that are using up virtual memory. > > The important hing to note here is the last two words: "virtual memory". > Processes reserve virtual memory for the chance that they might want to > address that amount of memory at some time while they're running, but > they usually don't use all of that virtual memory actively at any time.
Again, understand. > >> I'd be interested in reading one of those blogs relating to memstat if >> you have a link. > > I don't think any I read talk specifically about memstat, but I've seen > them talk about virtual memory usage compared to other measures. > > Unfortunately, I right now don't find the posts that talked about the > overall picture of this, I only find ones about details on memory > profiling and trying to reduce memory usage. Thanks. If you run across any I'd be interested in having a look so that I can better understand testing. > > Robert Kaiser > > _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
