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On 2023-07-31 at 04:11 ADT, Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Jim Diamond <JimDiamond@jdvb.ca> writes:
>> On 2023-07-30 at 14:59 ADT, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
>>> How much ram do you have?
>>> Mu plasmashell right now is 2GB VSZ
>>
>> I don`t think the VSZ is all that significant.
>
> Indeed VSZ tells you very little - for instance it includes a 2MB dead
> page in the middle of every shared library, which (in a complex process)
> scales up VSZ to something huge, but consumes almost no real resources.
>
>> What is the RSS?
>
> I think the theories about user space memory leaks are a red herring.
> The reported behavior is just not consistent with them.
>

I have not followed the thread too closely, but I suspect you are right.

But when I saw someone reporting VSZ, I thought that they should know that
it wasn`t meaningful, just in case they keep barking up that tree.

Cheers.
                                Jim
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