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resident size of a task

Post by Michal Szymans » Fri, 15 Oct 1999 04:00:00



When using 'top' (RH 5.2, 6.0) in default configuration, one sees
"RSS" column which, according to the man-page, gives:

    RSS  The total amount of physical memory used by the task

This looks like (IMHO) resident memory usage of the task.
But, RSS reported is almost always equal to SIZE, which for sure is not
always true (should RSS be indeed resident size). On the other hand,
one can display /proc/PID/status, showing "VmRSS" size, another thing
referred to as "resident memory usage". These two numbers differ
greatly, e.g:

Quote:>top

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
  921 msz       16   0 39132  38M   676 R       0 49.5 62.9  27:06 huge
  ...

Quote:>cat /proc/921/status

  ...
  VmRSS:      9104 kB

Question: which is the true "resident" memory size? If it is the latter
(which is my guess), would it be possible to display that number in "top"?

regards, Michal.

--

  Warsaw University Observatory, Warszawa, POLAND

 
 
 
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