Isn't the overage related to shared memory?
I.e. the RSS for any one process includes *all* of the shared
memory used by that process. And so when four processes share a
1GB memory segment, the sum of RSS == 4GB, while physical memory
used is actually only 1GB?
-- Tom
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Jared Still wrote:
> Thanks, though I think you knew what I meant. :)
>
> To be more precise in what I am asking:
> --------------------------------------
>
> According to the ps man page:
>
> rss RSS resident set size, the non-swapped physical
> memory that a task has used (in kiloBytes).
> (alias rssize, rsz).
>
> What's interesting is that summing RSS for all Oracle processes
> on the server in question (RH ES 4 64 Bit) yield 25 gig of RAM.
>
> The server has only 12 gig of RAM.
>
> Here's the ps command:
>
> ps -fywluoracle | awk '{ mem=mem+$8 } END{ mem=mem*1024; print "bytes:
",
> mem}'
>
> My question is: Does someone here know what is really being reported by
> RSS?
>
> Or is it just untrustworthy?
>
>
