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Artem S. Tashkinov
Artem S. Tashkinov
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In your example, pulseaudio is using 32k32MB not 3g3GB. The RES column is physical memory. The VIRT column shows all the virtual memory used by the process. According to man top, that includes all code, data, and shared libraries plus pages that have been swapped out and pages that have been mapped but not used.

In your example, pulseaudio is using 32k not 3g. The RES column is physical memory. The VIRT column shows all the virtual memory used by the process. According to man top, that includes all code, data, and shared libraries plus pages that have been swapped out and pages that have been mapped but not used.

In your example, pulseaudio is using 32MB not 3GB. The RES column is physical memory. The VIRT column shows all the virtual memory used by the process. According to man top, that includes all code, data, and shared libraries plus pages that have been swapped out and pages that have been mapped but not used.

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Andy Dalton
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In your example, pulseaudio is using 32k not 3g. The RES column is physical memory. The VIRT column shows all the virtual memory used by the process. According to man top, that includes all code, data, and shared libraries plus pages that have been swapped out and pages that have been mapped but not used.