Re: Milestones document

[Ian Peters <itp gnu org>]

On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 05:59:29PM -0600, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:
> This is why I use rxvt:
> 
>   PID TTY STAT TIME  PAGEIN TSIZ DSIZ  RSS   LIM %MEM COMMAND
>   596  ?  S    0:00     433   70 1761 1112    xx  1.1 rxvt
>   538  p2 S    0:00     456  147 2724 1672    xx  1.7 xterm 
>   543  p2 S    0:00     773   44 5259 3328    xx  3.4 gnome-terminal

Please instead of posting this read

http://serendipity.res.cmu.edu/~jberkman/MemoryUsage/index.html

The PAGEIN value is much closer to the "true" memory usage than
anything else, on my system gnome-terminal starts out using 750-some
bytes, but if you use File->New Terminal, I can have 8 terminals
running in only 892 bytes.  The RSS fields charges all the shared
libraries that gnome-terminal uses against it, but that's not fair,
because they are shared, hence other programs use the same memory.

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