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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: Damien Pacaud <05087635@brookes.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Odd values in /proc
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> Hi all,
> I was recently fooling with /proc for a school project and found out
> that ps and top are not doing the same calculation about memory load.

Take a third one and compare:  pmap `pidof X`
(and preferably post that)



Jan Engelhardt
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