To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange memory usage reporting
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From: mru@users.sourceforge.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=)
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 14:36:18 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20030826122711.GS4306@holomorphy.com> (William Lee Irwin,
 III's message of "Tue, 26 Aug 2003 05:27:11 -0700")
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William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> writes:

> 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?

Sorry, I forgot that.  It's 2.6.0-test4 with Nick Piggins' v7
scheduler patch.  The machine I'm running on is a Pentium 4 based
laptop.

-- 
M?ns Rullg?rd
mru@users.sf.net
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