On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Nacho Ruiz at RedesTB IRC Server wrote: > Me too, about 2.0+ in a 166Mhz SCO box with 64MB ram > top shows: > 439 news 55 0 32M 0K sleep 0:47 nntpcached > > size 32 mb? wow... That is normal. It's the mmap size. Here's what mine shows at the moment: USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND news 89 1.3 0.8 132292 852 ? D 21:35 19:13 nntpcache: waiting fo news 154 0.0 1.8 133244 1812 ? S 21:40 0:18 nntpcache: nocem: pro news 4213 1.4 1.2 132464 1148 ? S 18:00 2:42 nntpcache: root@news. news 4356 0.0 1.0 132352 1048 ? S 18:49 0:00 nntpcache: unknown@pp news 4632 0.2 1.3 132368 1260 ? S 20:43 0:03 nntpcache: news@news. news 4658 8.1 7.1 132344 6820 ? S 20:55 0:44 nntpcache: unknown@pp news 4660 0.0 1.0 132404 1008 ? S 20:56 0:00 nntpcache: news@nothi news 4689 0.1 0.9 132332 936 ? S 21:03 0:00 nntpcache: unknown@pp What counts is the RSS. In your case it's 0k AB