Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Paul Bijnens > <Paul.Bijnens at xplanation.com> wrote: >> >> On 2013-01-09 14:21, fred smith wrote: >>> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND >>> 11159 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. <snip> >> (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. mark