private resident set size

[Luca Rasconi]

Hi all,
I have a big dilemma (for me!!!):
I know (or better, i think to know), that RSS is the amount of physical memory actually used by a process, against the SIZE (i'm using TOP notation), that is the amount of memory (including swap area) needed by a process.
I would like to know how it's possible that RES > SIZE. I found that there are Private RSS for a process, but what the meaning of private?

I hope i explain well...


Bye
Luca

[harry d brown jr]

http://h21007.www2.hp.com/hpux-devtools/CXX/hpux-devtools.0204/0044.html

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/pdf/5965-4641.pdf

live free or die
harry

[Mike Stroyan]

I have added code for reference counting segments so it produces the same RES numbers as glance.
See the attached program.