Herbert Poetzl wrote:

VSZ is the total sum of the virtual memory

   (address space) of each process
RSS is the total sum of the resident set size
   (in RAM pages) of each process

it's basically the same as in ps auxww
only summed up for all processes belonging
to a context ...


And as far as I can tell, sometimes memory is counted more than once; ie, copy-on-write pages, like shared C library and binary images all count multiple times towards the VSZ total.

Is this a bug, or is there no simple way to tally the *real* VM size of a vserver?

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