On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 06:05:30PM +1200, Edward Murrell wrote:
I also think (but am not sure) that the mem usage reported there is shared ram. Someone care to correct/back me up?
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 17:29, S Swami wrote:
'top(1)' tells me that my ppp connection from the console (while in X) takes significantly less memory than kppp:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 25070 sns 9 0 13012 12m 11m S 0.0 10.3 0:01.34 kppp 25071 root 9 0 8080 8080 7624 S 0.0 6.4 0:00.01 kppp
Sounds about right. Shared memory normally means pages of memory that are shared with other processes. The best 2 examples of shared memory are where a process has forked and both parent and child are sharing the same pages, and dynamically loaded libraries. So your kppp is probably using 11 MB of qt and kde library code, which is also being used by other kde/qt apps. (I think :p) John.