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 > > -- > 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 > -- 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
