RES stands for resident, not reserved. "Reserved" sounds closer to virtual
memory. RSS/RES should be meaningful representations of the physical amount
of memory your application needs.

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Axel Kittenberger <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Can somebody explain me the possibilities of a discrepancy in memory
> > use?
>
> Never mind me. I shouldn't treat a garbage collected language like I
> used to the days with classical memory management. With --expose-gc
> and calling gc() in strategic places during startup at my discretion
> reduces the resulting reserved memory use to 27mb instead of the
> default 100mb. Lesson learned: reserved memory means nothing nowadays,
> everything was just fine.
>
> Kind regards, Axel
>
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