Thanks to all who responded to my question. It really helped
I have clearer view on things now. It looks like I was really chasing
ghosts. ;)
Special thanks to Caspar Dik.
Here are the links I've got. The original message is attached.
http://www.sunworld.com/common/swol-backissues-columns.html
http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/common/swol-backissues-columns.ht
http://www.sun.com/sun-on-net/
> Hi there,
>
> does somebody know how Solaris 2.5.1 memory management works
> in detail. I am trying to find memory leaks in proprietary code and
> discovered
> the following phenomenon. I used the /proc filesystem to
> figure out how
> much memory each process is using and top to determine the overall
> memory usage. My problem is they show a huge discrepancy. According
> to top I am loosing 100 Mb a day, but the differences shown in /proc
> cover for maximum 20-30Mb (of course given the number of
> running processes does not change). I feel like chasing ghosts here.
I
> am
> grateful for any pointer and I will summarize.
>
> Thanx,
> Heiko
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Fri Sep 28 2001 - 23:13:29 CDT