Hello,
At Sunday 02 September 2012 22:12:28 DaB. wrote:
> What's going on here?  It it just an accounting difference, or does a 
> Perl process on Linux really consume over 100 megabytes more memory than 
> on Solaris?

it is hard to compare the memory-usage between linux and solaris, because both 
handle vmsize different. For linux it is the reserved memory plus the heap plus 
the shared libraries; that's the reason linux tells you that a simple bash-
shell needs >100MB of RAM. For Solaris it is just the used space (and maybe 
the heap); so bash "needs" only 7MB here.
If you like to know how many memory your task is "using" at the moment, RSS is 
a far better place to look (you have to subtract the shared libraries 
through). For details about the linux-memory-system see [1].

Sincerely,
DaB.


[1] http://bmaurer.blogspot.de/2006/03/memory-usage-with-smaps.html

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