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From: "Chris January" <chris AT atomice DOT net>
To: "Cygwin AT Cygwin DOT Com" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: procps and top output
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 19:14:37 -0000
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> Randall R Schulz wrote:
>
> > What options to procps are you using to get that output format?
> I cannot
> > reproduce it.
>
> It's the output of "top", and yes, I see the problem too. The "size"
> column is always around 400 (+/-) MB, however large or small the process.
>
> The RSS size is correct - it matches the resident set size in the
> Windows task manager process display. It's only the "size" (== "VM size"
> in task manager?) that seems to be off.
I noticed this when I was porting procps but I never had time to investigate
exactly why this is so. It might be because VM size also includes DLLs and
file mappings.

Chris


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