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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 100% CPU usage with no processes to blame?
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:08:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702162008.07947.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45D4D85E.9040502@gmail.com>

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On Thursday 15 February 2007 22:02, b.n. wrote:
> Michael Crute ha scritto:
> >> You should use ps, top and free of course! Just realize that they lie...
> >
> > Seeing this thread reminded me of a blog article I saw on Virtual
> > Threads a while back...
> > http://virtualthreads.blogspot.com/2006/02/understanding-memory-usage-on-
> >linux.html
> >
> >
> > He does a pretty good job of explaining where top gets its numbers and
> > how to properly interpret them. HTH
>
> Nice post. Thanks for the link.

Indeed, I hadn't used the pmap command until now!  I was shocked to discover 
the direct memory used by Firefox-bin vs Opera vs Konqueror (just for a 
laugh).
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-16 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-14 16:23 [gentoo-user] 100% CPU usage with no processes to blame? Grant
2007-02-14 16:55 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-14 17:25   ` brullo nulla
2007-02-14 18:14     ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-02-14 18:31       ` Timothy A. Holmes
2007-02-14 18:52         ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-02-15  7:39         ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-14 18:28     ` Jerry McBride
2007-02-14 19:48       ` Pongrácz István
2007-02-14 20:38         ` Jerry McBride
2007-02-14 21:42           ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-02-15  7:35     ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-15 14:12       ` Michael Crute
2007-02-15 22:02         ` b.n.
2007-02-16 20:08           ` Mick [this message]
2007-02-16 20:55       ` Grant
2007-02-16 22:53         ` Alex Schuster
2007-02-19  8:22           ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-14 17:26   ` Uwe Thiem

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