On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:14:48AM +0200, Jerome Lacoste wrote:
| I have the following in top:
|
| PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME
COMMAND
| 532 root 16 -10 289M 32M 7528 S < 54.6 6.5 8:35
XFree86
|
| I think there is a problem there. XFree86 takes way too much space
and
| CPU. Have anybody encountered the same problem?
The SIZE column is useless. I forget the details why, but it often
confuses the "uniniated". The RSS is the how much heap the process
really has. The %MEM shows how much of your real memory (not swap)
the process is using.