Re: Linux mis-reporting memory

From: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Linux mis-reporting memory
Date: 2007-09-21 09:48:50
Message-ID: 200709211148.51647.dfontaine@hi-media.com
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Hi,

Le Friday 21 September 2007 01:04:01 Decibel!, vous avez écrit :
> I'm finding this rather interesting report from top on a Debian box...

I've read from people in other free software development groups that top/ps
memory usage outputs are not useful not trustable after all. A more usable
(or precise or trustworthy) tool seems to be exmap:
http://www.berthels.co.uk/exmap/

Hope this helps,
--
dim

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