September 2016
Intermediate to advanced
989 pages
24h 10m
English
There are several metrics to measure the amount of memory a process is using. I will begin with the two that are easiest to obtain— the virtual set size (vss) and the resident memory size (rss), both of which are available in most implementations of the ps and top commands:
ps command and VIRT in top, is the total amount of memory mapped by a process. It is the sum of all the regions shown in /proc/<PID>/map. This number is of limited interest, since only part of the virtual memory is committed to physical memory at any one time.ps and RES in top, is the sum of memory that is mapped to physical pages of memory. This gets closer to the actual memory budget of the process, but there ...Read now
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