Hi, I've used a number of different GUI tools to see memory usage but they seem to be telling me different things.
So going back to CLI, top & ps if I do a ps -aux Can someone tell me what the VSZ & RSS figures mean Real and Virtual according to man ps but I does that equate to physical ram and swapspace or what ? What about shared memory does ps not show this ? equally in top I have 'size', 'RSS' and 'share' This I understand a bit better I think but still am not quite sure what it really means example: star office writer PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 1397 rob 11 0 57912 56M 41696 S 0.0 15.0 0:04 soffice.bin 1421 rob 8 0 57912 56M 41696 S 0.0 15.0 0:00 soffice.bin 1422 rob 9 0 57912 56M 41696 S 0.0 15.0 0:00 soffice.bin 1423 rob 9 0 57912 56M 41696 S 0.0 15.0 0:00 soffice.bin 1425 rob 9 0 57912 56M 41696 S 0.0 15.0 0:00 soffice.bin 1429 rob 9 0 57912 56M 41696 S 0.0 15.0 0:00 soffice.bin I'm going guess that there is 41Meg shared between all 6 processes and then 15M per process that is non shared. Making 90+41 = 131Meg used by Star Writer No wonder it crawls on my laptop (fine on main machine) But thats with me guessing that all 6 share the same 41M, How do I tell for certain ? Thanks (in advance) Rob
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