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Resident memory RSS in ps aux command

user8571506Nov 12 2015 — edited Nov 12 2015

Hi,

when id run command

ps aux |awk '{ sum += $6 } END { print sum/1024/1024 }'  

the out put is way higher that total physical memory assigned to server.

the RSS out put on the 6 th column of ps aux output represent the resident memory which is amount of physical memory used by process. ??

how could that sum be larger that the total ram assigned to the server

Thanks

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