Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Paul Bijnens Paul.Bijnens@xplanation.com wrote:
On 2013-01-09 14:21, fred smith wrote:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND11159 fredex 16 0 263m 149m 10m S 0.3 3.8 1:36.87 clock-applet
149m RES: The parts that are really in use by "this" program, but including the parts shared by many others of the Gnome package that are
running.
(I put "this" between quotes, because someone seemed to believe that top or ps or some other program adds memory sizes in in "unfair" way to some processes only, while they should have been distributed over many. Actually I can't find any reason, or explanation of that.)
10m SHR: of those 149m that are in use, 10m is the shared portion.
That leaves 139m allocated exclusively by the clock-applet. Incredibly large yes.
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(Nostalgia: 1m private data for my running clock-applet still seems large to me, remembering to program on a mainframe with a total memory of 12 Mbyte, supporting hundreds of users. I remember it was upgraded to 16 Mbyte, the maximum amount. That was larger than one of its hard disks of 6 or 10 Mbyte, the size of a washing machine.)
Yup. Of course, the punch cards did take up a lot of space.... I remember carrying boxes in college.
It still bothers me to align the new large disks on 1M or 2M boundaries, loosing that much disk space; I do remember wanting to kill for one of the 5M h/d's that had just come out for PCs....
Think in terms of dollars instead of Mbytes here and it will make more sense that nobody cares anymore.
You ain't got no sense o' history or wonder, Les.
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