Re: top showing too much memory?

[Larry Woodman <lwoodman redhat com>]

Garrick Staples wrote:

> I only have two machines running the 2.4.21-25.ELhugemem kernel, and they both
> are reporting memory usage wrong in 'top', but not in 'ps'.  The 25.EL UP and
> smp kernels don't show this problem.
>  
This was fixed in 2.4.21-27.EL

> According to top...
>  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
>  955 root      15   0 2667M 2.6G   676 S     0.0 55.5   1:48   0 sshd
> 26672 ithayer   15   0  892M 892M   856 S     0.0 18.5   0:23   2 bash
>  842 root      15   0  882M 882M   596 S     0.0 18.3   0:20   1 automount
> 1277 root      17   0  786M 786M   480 S     0.0 16.3   0:05   2 grid-info-soft-
> 7726 root      23   0  547M 547M   440 S     0.0 11.4   0:06   2 psh
>
>
> According to ps...
> root       955  0.0  0.0  3604  784 ?        S    Nov29   1:48 /usr/sbin/sshd
> ithayer  26672  0.0  0.0  2328 1176 pts/18   S    Dec01   0:23 bash
> root       842  0.0  0.0  1744  724 ?        S    Nov29   0:20 /usr/sbin/automount
> root      1277  0.0  0.0  2144  624 ?        S    Nov29   0:05 /bin/sh
> root      7726  0.0  0.0  2040  960 ?        S    Dec15   0:06 /bin/ksh
>
>  
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