prstat output question
807559Feb 7 2005 — edited Feb 10 2005Hi,
When I run
prstat -a
I find a huge numbers represented Size and RSS for a specific user.
for example,
NPROC USERNAME SIZE RSS MEMORY TIME CPU
96 oracle 71G 67G 99% 0:20:02 1.9%
57 root 687M 546M 0.8% 0:55:54 0.1%
3 spmadmin 71M 7448K 0.0% 0:00:00 0.0%
1 daemon 2512K 1960K 0.0% 0:00:00 0.0%
1 smmsp 4408K 1456K 0.0% 0:00:00 0.0%
As I understand and please correct me if I'm wrong, RSS is represinting the process size in the physical memory and Size is represinting the process size on the swap.
As you can see for user oracle size= 71G and RSS=67G.
Those are huge and strange numbers according to actual values as I have just 4 GB of memory and swap size is just 4GB.
So my question is what are the numbers in the prstat output actually represent.
Thanks for your help.