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top and threads (was RE: [PLUG] Re: PLUG digest, Vol 1 #754 - 13 msgs)
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Can't remember if I mentioned this here or on another list, so apologies for
possibly repeating myself.
>Talking about memory, I've been using the Gnome System Monitor to check mem
>usage off and on. I've noticed that 2 apps in particular use way too much
mem:
>Netscape 6 (which I don't run much anymore) and S Office 5.2. They seem
to
>load up into between 100-200Mb RAM to begin with.
My understanding is that top doesn't understand threads. If Netscape is
running in ~25MB of memory space, but has six concurrent threads, then top
will just see each thread as a seperate process - even though the base
address is the same. So it reports 150MB used when in fact it's the same
25MB six times over.
A bug in top, I say. Maybe one day I'll research it enough to know whether
to file said bug or not. Or perhaps someone here knows the real story?
tka
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