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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: M?ns Rullg?rd <mru@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange memory usage reporting
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 05:27:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030826122711.GS4306@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yw1xad9w1uj5.fsf@users.sourceforge.net>

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:18:54PM +0200, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> I was a little surprised to see top tell me this:
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND           
> 10642 mru       11   0 23200  81m 2740 S  0.0 37.0   0:00.07 tcvp              
> It didn't make sense that RES > VIRT, so I check /proc/pid/*.  Their
> contents are below.  Am I missing something?  Note that they are not
> consistent with the 'top' line above, since they were copied at a
> different time.  The effect is easily reproducible.  It happens every
> time I run my music player with using ALSA.
> The memory usage summary by top, also doesn't agree:

What kernel version?


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-26 12:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-26 12:18 Strange memory usage reporting Måns Rullgård
2003-08-26 12:27 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-08-26 12:36   ` Måns Rullgård
2003-08-26 13:03 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2003-08-26 13:59   ` Jaroslav Kysela
2003-08-26 17:03     ` Hugh Dickins
2003-08-27  7:52       ` Ingo Oeser
2003-08-27 13:45         ` Hugh Dickins

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