On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 07:41:35PM +1200, John R. McPherson wrote:
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?
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.
Yes, that explains it. And adding up all the shared mem values from top(1) gives > 100%. (Sorry, I think a similar question has been asked on the list before too. Should have checked before asking.) Cheers, Sid.