On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:47 PM, HUSSON Pierre-Hugues<phhusson at free.fr> wrote: > Le jeudi 20 ao?t 2009 23:27:35, Timothy Normand Miller a ?crit : >> I've had my Linux box up for weeks. ?I was looking at top and noticed >> that the VIRT column for fancontrol said "100m". ?Now, I know you're >> supposed to take VIRT with a grain of salt because it includes all >> kinds of things like shared memory, etc. ?But isn't 100 megs a bit >> excessive? ?Isn't this just a shell script? >> >> BTW, RES and SHR are 2944 and 504, respectively. > The VIRT column doesn't mean anything on linux (and any other modern OS), > well, it's the allocated memory size. The actual memory consumption including > libraries is RES+SHR, so 3.5MB, which seems fine to me for that. > But if you prefer, you can rewrite it in plain C, with all the debuggings and > so on to gain maybe 2MiB :) I'm not really worried about it. I'm just trying to make sure it's not the cause of swapping. Thanks. :) -- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project
