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That does seem weird. Just checked my bash processes and none exceed 13 megabytes of virtual memory PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% TIM
by no_time 5y ago
That does seem weird. Just checked my bash processes and none exceed 13 megabytes of virtual memory
PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% TIME+ Command
2048 REDACTED 20 0 12852 1844 1816 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 │ bash
Ubuntu 20.04 with latest patches
- kazinator 5y agoI remember a moment from 1994 or so. I was using a friend's machine, which was running X on top of Linux. It was some model of 486. I had some image viewing windows open (xv program), and was editing a complex figure in XFig, and had some audio playing. I was thinking, "man, this is nicely responsive and usable; how much RAM is in this thing?" I drop to the shell to run "free" ... 6 megs! Remembering these things is important, kind of like remembering rivers full of fish, frozen polar ice caps, or the song of an extinct bird.