Re: Strange memory usage reporting

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:18:54PM +0200, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> I was a little surprised to see top tell me this:
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND           
> 10642 mru       11   0 23200  81m 2740 S  0.0 37.0   0:00.07 tcvp              
> It didn't make sense that RES > VIRT, so I check /proc/pid/*.  Their
> contents are below.  Am I missing something?  Note that they are not
> consistent with the 'top' line above, since they were copied at a
> different time.  The effect is easily reproducible.  It happens every
> time I run my music player with using ALSA.
> The memory usage summary by top, also doesn't agree:

What kernel version?


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