From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OxIVz-0006v0-9r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:57:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7D239E073A; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:56:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66539E073A for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:56:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.43]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47475281; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 07:56:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 19 Sep 2010 07:56:41 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=+6ZcqO8vCxS1r3QQ3xXPBtAMKpQ=; b=BoBMJkUUnU0qk1DOSsGgc7Zdc6ODsze+r9Yfdrs63o7UxWj8lQh6ocGoWbclX4djc2L/CSad77SfqZwqIkJHVWbU1huzN46hRsvNMCLDsJEowUJN1ekuZ5iufmENO+gIMgtPeMITPJMNK4dIEgTOlQgCpJuGho1cn9c1G4sC3ww= X-Sasl-enc: yqeXPfCm8d12PoKNKz8U3nlqwQZ/ubasvj9HtjcNq5nn 1284897400 Received: from [192.168.5.18] (lvps83-169-5-6.dedicated.hosteurope.de [83.169.5.6]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7C0295E0CB0 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 07:56:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C95FA75.5020000@f_philipp.fastmail.net> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:56:37 +0200 From: Florian Philipp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100808 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.1.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE ridiculous memory usage References: <4C94D075.6040508@f_philipp.fastmail.net> <201009191025.07004.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <201009191334.35810.wonko@wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <201009191334.35810.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: fee7deaf-fc8c-4e03-b7fc-243594242958 X-Archives-Hash: 24585671fbc62b292d692b751ac0600d Am 19.09.2010 13:34, schrieb Alex Schuster: > Alan McKinnon writes: >> Like I posted in another thread today, the memory columns in top do not >> mean what most people think they mean, nor are they simplistic. > > You gave the example of Thunderbird using 150M and Firefox 180M, but > together they would not use 330M because some stuff is shared. Hm, isn't > this what the SHR column in top is for? In Florian's case, there is > firefox with 484M in the RES column and thunderbird with 146M, but the SHA > column gives 10M + 15M, so only 25M of 630M are shared? > I thought the SHR column is about shared memory like System-V SHM, mmap and Pipes when used for inter-process communication. But I could be wrong.