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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject:  Re: question: high virtual memory usage
Date:  Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:38:34 -0700
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Alexey Fayans wrote:
>
>>>> All programs that use cygwin1.dll report very high virtual memory 
>>>> usage. For example, bash from standard package report usage of 
>>>> ~420MB. Is it how it should be?
>>>
>>> Hard to say without more information. Please see the Cygwin problem 
>>> reporting guidelines at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>. FWIW, I 
>>> don't observe this on my machine (WinXP) -- all my bashes show around
>>> 2MB of virtual memory in the TaskManager.
>>
>> Look at screenshot: http://home.shad.pp.ru/tmp/cygwin.png
>
> Still cannot reproduce (my Process Explorer shows the same numbers as 
> the TaskManager). Which version of Process Explorer are you using? It 
> could also be a SysInternals bug, as Andrew suggested...

I like Process Explorer. In fact I use it instead of Task Manager. But 
there are 2 things about Process Explorer that I don't like. One is this 
wrong reporting of virtual memory and the other is the fact that Process 
Explorer does not have a nice little graph of Network usage nor number 
of users logged in (in the case of XP for example).

I sure wish that SysInternals would fix this but I'm not knowledgeable 
enough to confront them intelligently.
-- 
640K ought to be enough RAM for anybody. - Bill Gates, 1981


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