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From: Alan Connor (alanconnor_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 07/27/03

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    I'm trying to figure out why my memory footprint is so large when I am running
    NOTHING!

    Running Debian with a 2.4.19 kernel

     08:23:37 up 57 min, 3 users, load average: 0.51, 0.15, 0.05
    18 processes: 17 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
    CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.2% system, 0.0% nice, 99.8% idle
    Mem: 126528K total, 119212K used, 7316K free, 18932K buffers
    Swap: 128484K total, 700K used, 127784K free, 45920K cached

      PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
        1 root 8 0 488 460 444 S 0.0 0.3 0:04 init
        2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd
        3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
        4 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:08 kswapd
        5 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush
        6 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kupdated
       39 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 khubd
      325 root 9 0 600 596 488 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 syslogd
      328 root 9 0 916 720 404 S 0.0 0.5 0:00 klogd
      354 root 9 0 528 456 456 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 inetd
      370 root 8 0 680 632 560 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 cron
      374 alan 8 0 1388 1200 1048 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 bash
      375 alan 9 0 1388 1388 1028 S 0.0 1.0 0:00 bash
      376 root 0 0 1340 1340 1016 S 0.0 1.0 0:00 bash
      377 root 9 0 468 432 412 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 getty
      378 root 9 0 468 432 412 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 getty
      379 root 9 0 468 432 412 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 getty
      739 alan 9 0 932 932 748 R 0.0 0.7 0:00 top

    (that's a screenshot taken with # cat /dev/vcs2 > file, of tty2 from tty3)

    Here's /sbin/lsmod

    Module Size Used by Not tainted
    ppp_deflate 38912 0 (autoclean)
    bsd_comp 3936 0 (autoclean)
    ppp_async 6688 0 (autoclean)
    ppp_generic 16908 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async]
    slhc 4480 0 (autoclean) [ppp_generic]
    agpgart 20704 0 (autoclean)
    iptable_filter 1728 1 (autoclean)
    keybdev 1664 0 (unused)
    mousedev 3744 0
    usb-uhci 20676 0 (unused)
    hid 19104 0 (unused)
    usbcore 53856 0 [usb-uhci hid]
    ide-scsi 7552 0
    ide-floppy 11840 0
    unix 13412 3 (autoclean)

    Do those size figures indicate bytes or kilobytes? Is that their actual memory
    footprint?

    Thanks much,

    Alan 

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