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Subject: Re: [9fans] output of ps(1) memory usage
From: okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp
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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:55:46 +0900
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I'm now fighting against possible memory leak of marsv.

>> Is the output of ps(1) on the amount of used memory will not
>> shrink natural?
>
> I think you're asking whether the amount of memory
> used by a process ever shrinks.  The answer to that is no.

I should have been more clear.    The background of my question
was that I first showed a image(206554 bytes), and the ps(1)
results are:
okamoto         478    0:07   0:00   35988K Rendez   marsv
okamoto         479    0:00   0:00   35988K Pread    marsv
okamoto         480    0:00   0:00   35988K Pread    marsv
then, cleared it, and read again a smaller image(21698 bytes),
and the results are:
okamoto         478    0:15   0:00   35988K Rendez   marsv
okamoto         479    0:00   0:00   35988K Pread    marsv
okamoto         480    0:00   0:00   35988K Pread    marsv

This was the reason why I asked the previous question.

Kenji