Programs memory usage in AMD64

[Francisco Reyes]

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Vivek Khera wrote:

>> sshd takes under 3MB in i386. It takes close to 30MB in AMD64!
>
> That's the VSZ I see.  I'm sure that includes the entire shared object size 
> as well, which doesn't really matter since they are shared in physical 
> memory.  The RSS are comparable.

Thanks for the info. So I guess the "real size" in AMD64 is reporting 
shared objects. I wonder if that is the way we want it to report..

I will look at RES then..