On 9/25/07, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the virtual size is 47M, but the shared and resident sizes rarely
> change from their combined 8MB ...
This is skirting the edge of my understanding, but my understanding
is that the virtual size is the total of all pages mapped into a
process's virtual address space. That can include:
- pages in main memory ("RAM")
- pages swapped out to disk
- mmap'ed files
- shared libraries
- IPC shared memory
- kernel resources
- hardware I/O
So, basically: Here there be dragons. ;-)
-- Ben
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