-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2006-05-20 at 00:47 +0200, I wrote:
The Thursday 2006-05-18 at 08:49 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
No-one's got any suggestions regarding this discrepancy??
I thought about it, but I don't really know what happens; I have noticed similar numbers in mine. I have a guess: that "VIRT" shows the assigned or memory, but maybe it has holes, or it hasn't been "located". Poor choice of words... I don't think I can express my idea well tonight.
I got another idea; I don't know if Linux does this, but I remember Windows did, and perhaps still does. Windows can completely discard unused code sections of programs and libraries; I don't mean swaping memory out, but discard. If that part of the code is needed again, it is reloaded from the original executable file. This way, it needs less swap file space. Can Linux do a similar thing? Using swap space would be faster (when reading back), I think, but if it does it could also help explain the discrepancy you found in top. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEblRTtTMYHG2NR9URAkcLAJ9S1kBvAG9J/sR9tHixRekEWUNBTwCcDDll k3Xk0LfLDiTHZ/ZzGSKPsho= =yqnk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----