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Article #158Re: Resident Set Size Confusion
From: Randy Carpenter
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 14:14
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 14:14
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dhinds@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) writes: > [stuff deleted...] > >If you add up the rss fields, it looks like there are about 30600 4K >pages of physical memory in use by these large jobs, or about 120 MB. >So in fact, if this is a typical load, there is no free memory after >all, since the OS should take up the remaining space. The size fields >are much larger than the rss's, so most of the memory allocated by >these jobs must never be touched (otherwise they would overwhelm the >48 MB of swap space). This is typical of Fortran programs with large >static array declarations. > > - David Hinds > dhinds@allegro.stanford.edu Whoops. I sampled a period when we were loaded to the gills. I'm almost certain this has happened in a period of low activity...perhaps I'm wrong. Sorry. -- =========================================================================== Randy Carpenter rcarpent@gsu.edu % Got a light? Georgia State University (404) 651-2648 No match. Wells Computer Center %
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!gsusgi1.gsu.edu!gsusgi1.gsu.edu!syscrc From: syscrc@pickle.gsu.edu (Randy Carpenter) Subject: Re: Resident Set Size Confusion Message-ID: <syscrc.726329677@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> Organization: Georgia State University References: <syscrc.726293940@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> <1993Jan6.072923.9471@odin.corp.sgi.com> <1993Jan6.081854.27331@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 14:14:37 GMT Lines: 25