Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263659AbTHZNF0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:05:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263640AbTHZNF0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:05:26 -0400 Received: from gate.perex.cz ([194.212.165.105]:63501 "EHLO gate.perex.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263689AbTHZNFW convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:05:22 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:03:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Jaroslav Kysela X-X-Sender: perex@pnote.perex-int.cz To: =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Strange memory usage reporting In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1165 Lines: 29 On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, [iso-8859-1] 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. I have exactly same behaviour with 2.4.21 kernel. It seems that VmRSS grows with the mmap2 syscalls although appropriate munmap is called. I'm investigating a possible problem with the memory accounting. Jaroslav ----- Jaroslav Kysela Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, SuSE Labs - 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/