[Gllug] memory usage in linux

[David Damerell]

On Tuesday, 27 Aug 2002, Pavel Bradut Boghita wrote:
>Thanks a lot for so much insight. This stuff is really interesting. I think I 
>understood the bit about caching, but then.... where do I see how much memory 
>is actually being used to keep the process running ?

The contents of the SIZE and RSS columns for the process.

>For example GIMP asks me 
>how much memory am I going to allocate taking into account what other 
>processes will use. How would I best allocate this memory ?

Roughly speaking, the size of the system's memory less the amount in
use (ie, main memory minus 'free' and 'buff' displayed in top) in
normal operation also less a fiddle factor of, say, 64M. Assuming a
single-user system.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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