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Understanding Memory Usage On Linux

Posted by Hemos on from the and-beyond-Linux dept.

Percy_Blakeney writes "Have you ever wondered why a simple text editor on Linux can use dozens of megabytes of memory? A recent blog posting explains how the output of the ps tool is misleading and how you can get a better idea of how much memory a process really uses."

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  1. fp? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    fp???!!

  2. Dupe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sigh... another dupe from digg.com

    1. Re:Dupe by spafbnerf · · Score: -1, Troll

      Was on digg.com *some time* ago too. ;) digg.com is where it's at i'm afraid...

  3. Re:Extra, extra, read all about it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh, We're sorry you're way too smart... This is sooooOo Underneath you... Please... Settle down and eat your oatmeal before your mommy yells at you for using her computer, and fix your glasses.

  4. Re:The only thing running by mi · · Score: 0, Troll
    It wouldn't be hard to create a launcher that would run them all on the same virtual machine. Such a launcher would a candidate for the system integration you suggest. After all, if you needed to run Windows apps on your Linux box, you wouldn't run multiple instances of VMWare, would you?
    Actually, a JVM is even less stable than Windows. It was not designed as a real OS. The garbage-collection, for example, will freeze the entire VM for as long as it needs to run -- and sometimes it goes out of whack and hangs permanently...
    --
    In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.