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To: Peter Berger <peterb@peterb.pp.psc.edu>
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: VM question 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Dec 95 19:02:34 EST."
             <199512160002.TAA00875@peterb.pp.psc.edu> 
From: David Greenman <davidg@root.com>
Reply-To: davidg@root.com
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 16:50:03 -0800
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>
>here's an interesting cut from a "ps -auxw" listing:
>
>peterb     870  4.2  6.5   292  944  p3  SN    7:00PM    0:00.18 ./rxvt -bg 
>			   VSZ  RSS
>
>Can someone explain to me how RSS can possibly be larger than VSZ?  I
>thought VSZ necessarily included the portion of the executable resident
>in memory.

   Shared libraries aren't included in the VSZ.

-DG