[Sussex] Mem usage

[Dominic Clay]

Hello all,

I am trying to undestand what I am seeing when I run a top command....
I was hoping someone might have a thought they could share on this subject
:)

This is a part of what I get on my RH 7.2 machine

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 1510 root      18   0  1060 1060   836 R    24.7  0.1   0:02 top
 1360 root      13   5  100M 100M 10116 S N   8.3 16.0   0:00 ATNYDRE1queryh
 1363 root      13   5  100M 100M 10116 S N   2.3 16.0   0:00 ATNYDRE1queryh
 1364 root      13   5  100M 100M 10116 S N   8.3 16.0   0:00 ATNYDRE1queryh
 1366 root      13   5  100M 100M 10116 S N   8.3 16.0   0:00 ATNYDRE1queryh
 1367 root      13   5  100M 100M 10116 S N   0.0 16.0   0:00 ATNYDRE1queryh
 1369 root      16   5  100M 100M 10108 R N  17.3 16.0   0:01 ATNYDRE1queryh
 1376 root      16   5  100M 100M 10108 R N  17.3 16.0   0:00 ATNYDRE1queryh
 1370 root      15   5  100M 100M 10108 S N  12.3 16.0   0:01 ATNYDRE1queryh
 1368 root      13   5  100M 100M 10116 S N   0.0 16.0   0:01 ATNYDRE1queryh
 ....

There are numerous identical processes shown (actually I have about 12 of
these).  I am expecting to have numerous processes, that's not a problem,
but they are showing a Mem usage which, if cumulative would suggest much
more than 100% memory usage.

Is this right (suggesting this includes swap?) or am I reading this wrong?


Dominic