17 Oct
2002
17 Oct
'02
21:30
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Anders Johansson wrote:
hm. Good question. I thought I knew how to read the numbers in "free" and "ps", but apparently I don't. kmail has a virtual size of 35 MB of which about 20 is resident, and the kdeinit processes take up some number of MB too (RSS) but according to "free" the available memory only drops by about 13MB when I start it. [...snip...] Something just doesn't add up here.
I think all those kdeinit processes have some memory shared. This might be shown as used by each process, but because it is actually only used once, it will only be deducted once in the output from free. The output from top and ps is simply not meant to be added up, because that often gives wrong results. Regards Ole