Virtual Memory (Was: Disappearing debug)

[Jim Barton]

In article <492 at dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>, buck at drax.gsfc.nasa.gov (Loren (Buck) Buchanan) writes:
> All of this discussion brings back a question I have had for a while, and
> that is:
> 
> 	How do you tell how much virtual (and real) memory a given
> 	process is using?
> 
> B Cing U
> 
> Buck
> 
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The 'ps -l' command shows the process size and resident set size for processes.
The man page has all the detail, but please examine the SZ:RSS field.
The numbers take the format 'n:m', where 'n' is the virtual size of the
process (in pages), and 'm' is the number of pages actually residing
in memory.

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