Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263701AbTHZM0R (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:26:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263776AbTHZM0Q (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:26:16 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:2991 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263701AbTHZM0N (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:26:13 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 05:27:11 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: M?ns Rullg?rd Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Strange memory usage reporting Message-ID: <20030826122711.GS4306@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , M?ns Rullg?rd , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 937 Lines: 20 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/