On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:20:54AM -0500, Troy Johnson wrote: > I hadn't considered what Linux does to make things better, but I should have. > When viewing my 'httpd's in 'top', is the memory shown there the actual amount > of memory each daemon is using, or how much it would use if it wrote to the > inherited memory space? ps displays the memory uniquely allocated to a process in the RSS column. I think that shared memory usage is displayed under VSZ in `ps u`, which is the sum of the TRS and DRS columns in `ps v`, but I'm not positive about these. Pointers to documentation of what all the column headings in ps stand for and their significance, anyone? > Would it be advantageous to encapsulate most of the Perl interpreter in an > .so library so that traditional CGIs could share that memory? I seem to > remember something about that sort of thing being available (but not > recommended yet) when compiling Perl 5.6. Possibly, but if it's not recommended, there must be some (at least potential) problems with doing so. -- That's not gibberish... It's Linux. - Byers, The Lone Gunmen Geek Code 3.12: GCS d? s+: a C++ UL++++$ P++>+++ L+++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w--- O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv+ b+ DI++++ D G e* h r y+