> Run htop or similar, sort by "shared memory" The top two entries are 80 and 36 kB respectively. RES is 2.3 giga-bytes (over four orders of magnitude larger)

> Run htop or similar, sort by "shared memory" The top two entries are 80 and 36 kB respectively. RES is 2.3 giga-bytes (over four orders of magnitude larger) between them. Even multiplying the top SHR by your ~400 processes gives 32 MB (still two orders of magnitude off). That is not a counter argument; that is a agreement that dynamic linking is useless. Edit: RES, not VIRT.