> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] > Subject: Re: Showing Tomcat Memory Utilization with 'top' > > Also, I believe VIRT includes memory shared with other processes
Doesn't RES also include shared pages - anything that's in the memory map of the process? (I can't remember exactly how that works, but the shared pages have to be accounted for somewhere.) > so if you have 50MiB of Java system classes loaded and a modern > JVM which shares them among running JVMs Note that only the client HotSpot JVM shares classes; the server version does not. (The sharing is really class templates, not the class objects themselves.) - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers.