Thanks for clarification Ben. That makes sense and the 51 MB I was referring to was the heapUsed value which was just one part of the picture as I just learned. What typically takes up the most memory outside of the V8 heap? Open file descriptors? (in this particular app I'm making a lot of HTTP requests). Anyway to tap into that information?
On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 8:52:03 PM UTC-5, Ben Noordhuis wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:35 AM, wavded <[email protected]> wrote: > > mscdex, question about that, I have a process running at 370 some MB in > RES > > (in TOP) but the output from process.memoryUsage() is 51 MB. Any clues > on > > that? I know Linux memory management is weird but I have been relying > on > > process.memoryUsage(). What is it actually? > > $ node -pe 'process.memoryUsage()' > { rss: 6701056, heapTotal: 3018752, heapUsed: 1587360 } > > rss is what node thinks the RSS is (may not quite match what external > tools report - it's complicated). > > heapTotal and heapUsed relate to the V8 heap, not the global heap. > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
