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From: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Cc: Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux mis-reporting memory
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:48:50 +0200
Message-ID: <200709211148.51647.dfontaine@hi-media.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070920230400.GM95343@decibel.org>
References: <20070920230400.GM95343@decibel.org>

Hi,

Le Friday 21 September 2007 01:04:01 Decibel!, vous avez écrit :
> I'm finding this rather interesting report from top on a Debian box...

I've read from people in other free software development groups that top/ps 
memory usage outputs are not useful not trustable after all. A more usable 
(or precise or trustworthy) tool seems to be exmap:
  http://www.berthels.co.uk/exmap/

Hope this helps,
-- 
dim



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