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- 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
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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.
-
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