Subject: Re: VM space leak?
To: Witold J. Wnuk <witek@pd37.warszawa.sdi.tpnet.pl>
From: John Franklin <franklin@elfie.org>
List: current-users
Date: 06/05/2001 21:50:57
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 04:46:02PM +0200, Witold J. Wnuk wrote:
> > swapctl -s
> total: 294328k bytes allocated = 278340k used, 15988k available
> > ps u
> USER  PID %CPU %MEM  VSZ   RSS TT STAT STARTED    TIME COMMAND
> witek 648  0.0  0.2  348   272 p4 R+    4:36PM 0:00.00 ps u 
> witek 304  0.0 17.2 8972 22512 p2 S+    4:26PM 0:38.34 /usr/local/bin/acroread 
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 09:44:45PM +1200, Oleg.Polianski@clear.co.nz wrote:
> "Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru> writes:
>   File -> Preferences -> General -> Use page cache -> Off
> 
>  This feature really causes HUGE memory footprint.

Why doesn't ps show the huge memory footprint?

I've seen simliar behavior with X itself, where killing X will free
more swap space (like 30M) than ps claimed X was using.

jf
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