On Mon, 18 May 1998, Danny Rice wrote:
>I have 128 M of memory. When I do a top it reports about 108376K
>used. When I do a
>
>ps aux | awk '{sum+=$6}END{print sum}'
>
>I get about 59000K
It's because of shared memory. Many of the processes areas that you are
reporting have shared components. For instance, if you had 6 copies of
sendmail running then just summing up their resident size areas as
reported by ps would give you something like the above. However, most of
the pages of these processes would be shared.
>Danny Rice
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