[Gllug] OT(ish): Advice

[Simon A. Boggis]

On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 16:03, Tethys wrote:
> >Allow me to introduce you to ``Enlightenment''.
> 
> We've already met, but even accounting for that:
> 
>   PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS COMMAND
>  1172  0.4  2.8 99168 14560 X
>  1410  0.0  0.6  5968 3516 enlightenment

Doesn't the VSZ include the memory wired into your graphics card [1]
(which can't normally be used for anything else) and shared libraries?
So in my case:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root     21458  2.5  6.9 90476 17984 ?       S<   Nov25 787:43
/usr/bin/X11/X :0 -deferglyphs 16 -nolisten tcp vt7 -auth
/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth

... the 90476 M of memory is mostly composed of shared libaries; X owns
17984 M exclusively, but that includes 16 M on my graphics card, which
leaves about 2 M of real memory [2][3].

Simon

[1] This is from a hazy memory of a talk on the subject a couple of
years ago
[2] The shared library stuff is "used" too, but it might be shared.
[3] I could be talking complete rubbish.


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