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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew@DeFaria.com>
Subject:  Re: question: high virtual memory usage
Date:  Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:35:58 -0700
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Brian Dessent wrote:

> Just to clarify:
>
> taskman's "Mem usage" column == procexp's "Working set" column and 
> this is the amount of memory that is actually being used by the process.
>
> taskman's "VM size" column == procexp's "Private bytes" column and 
> this is the total amount of code+data that has been assigned to the 
> process, though not all of it is necessarily in use.
>
> procexp's "virtual size" is simply a representation of the amount of 
> virutal memory that has been allocated to the process. Virtual memory 
> is not real memory and it only means that X number of pages have been 
> allocated, it says absolutely nothing about the actual memory used by
> the process, and you should ignore it completely unless you have a 
> specific reason to need to know about it.

That may be but it does represent the "footprint" of the process or at 
least the amount of memory + swap reserved (doesn't it?). As such I seek 
to minimize such usage.

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