On Thursday 15 February 2007 22:02, b.n. wrote: > Michael Crute ha scritto: > >> You should use ps, top and free of course! Just realize that they lie... > > > > Seeing this thread reminded me of a blog article I saw on Virtual > > Threads a while back... > > http://virtualthreads.blogspot.com/2006/02/understanding-memory-usage-on- > >linux.html > > > > > > He does a pretty good job of explaining where top gets its numbers and > > how to properly interpret them. HTH > > Nice post. Thanks for the link.
Indeed, I hadn't used the pmap command until now! I was shocked to discover the direct memory used by Firefox-bin vs Opera vs Konqueror (just for a laugh). -- Regards, Mick
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