From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HI9Tk-000895-Vb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:14:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1GKDbVn028923; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:13:37 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.184]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1GK8cef023103 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:08:39 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so1521913nfe for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:08:38 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=Tuw2NciPBSlgBt7t+hltUVW0Yw3XXkwnxAdPCsyy0kRE2g/fdalobXZhmW5/lc8oyUiKXAFhpep25rWIAHrz+w3xS/ZgEg3Dbds04LUejkGfEvMSggGs6AYM/d6jNFLtztiF4bqNufeGS8rpvFLELWfE6BO0BszLFYKj5jo4Dqg= Received: by 10.49.49.4 with SMTP id b4mr2796528nfk.1171656517951; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:08:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy.study ( [213.162.120.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id m16sm15437304nfc.2007.02.16.12.08.37; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:08:37 -0800 (PST) From: Mick 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <49bf44f10702140823g41f20636ka3bd4bab0f45b10e@mail.gmail.com> <558b73fb0702150612i14ebecdhbd3d549b80b52fe8@mail.gmail.com> <45D4D85E.9040502@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45D4D85E.9040502@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2295984.OWWuUZh30o"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200702162008.07947.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: bceee0f7-5df5-4d76-9d58-e70d6c23343e X-Archives-Hash: e310c0fc39ceedd0b9d7377369828fb8 --nextPart2295984.OWWuUZh30o Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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.= =2E. > > > > 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-o= n- > >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 discove= r=20 the direct memory used by Firefox-bin vs Opera vs Konqueror (just for a=20 laugh). =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2295984.OWWuUZh30o Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBF1g8n5Fp0QerLYPcRAiwvAKCrf7JKY6L1p6tUL3qgnnVTQlRPZwCgwwdj hsqAEjO/nVrd02/16FOfQjw= =mfm0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2295984.OWWuUZh30o-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list