top command

[jay_40]

Hi,

What's difference between the field SIZE and RES?

Thank you

[George Abraham_1]

hai

See the man pages of Top..seems to be clear...

regards
george

[Pete Randall]

From man top:
SIZE Total size of the process in kilobytes.
This includes text, data, and stack.

RES Resident size of the process in kilobytes.
The resident size information is, at best, an approximate value.

Hope this helps,
Pete

[Stefan Farrelly]

SIZE Total size of the process in kilobytes.
This includes text, data, and stack.

RES Resident size of the process in kilobytes.
The resident size information is, at best,
an approximate value.


So RES Means approx how much memory it is actually using even though the program my be a lot larger in size and grow.

[Frederic Sevestre]

Hi,

man top says :

SIZE Total virtual size of the process in kilobytes. This includes virtual sizes of text, data, stack, mmap regions, shared memory regions and IO mapped regions. This may also include virtual memory regions shared with other processes.

RES Resident size of the process in kilobytes. It includes the sizes of all private
regions in the process. The resident size information is, at best, an approximate value.

Fr??d??ric

[Hai Nguyen_1]

Jay,
Here is the difference:
SIZE Total size of the process in kilobytes.
This includes text, data, and stack.
RES Resident size of the process in kilobytes.
The resident size information is, at best,
an approximate value.

Hai