memory usage of smart

[Martin Marques]

El Vie 10 Feb 2006 13:53, Mauricio Teixeira escribió:
> Martin Marques wrote:
> > root      6067 89.6 28.2 78136 71676 pts/1   R+   16:38
> > 0:28 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/smart -o psyco=0 --shell
>
> One thing should be considered here: how much memory do you have?
>
> The amount shown here is 28% of the total vailable memory.
>
> Take my workstation with 384MB as an example:
>
> root      9882 40.1 18.0  61984 58000 pts/4    S+   14:49   0:16
> /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/smart --shell
[snip]
> root      6795 29.7  4.9  41768 38112 pts/2    R+   14:54   0:05
> /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/smart --shell

Now, here we have a very nice reduction of virtual memory and resident memory, 
and all that changes was the amaount of memory the server has. What happend?

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