On May 12, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Olivier Riff wrote: > What I do not understand is where the value of 2104m for the virtual memory > comes from. > When I add the value of Mem used (777848k) to the value of the cache > (339184k) : the amount is by far inferior to the Virtual memory (2104m). > Are here part of the memory allocated by the clients taken into account ?
No, top only shows the data from one machine. > Where are physically allocated these 2104m of data ? They may be in physical memory and may also be swapped out on disk. Keep in mind that the virtual memory encompasses *all* memory for an application -- its code and its data. Hence, this also includes shared libraries (which may be shared amongst several processes on the same machine), process-specific instructions, process-specific data, and shared process data. -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
