Matthew French wrote:
> Hi Vincent.
>>>>I've found several other people seeing the same VSZ issue with pthreads,
>>spread over a long time, but no solution as yet.
>>> This is most probably a stupid question, but how are you checking the VSZ?
ps ;-)
> As you most probably know, each thread under linux is actually a separate
> process. But these processes share the same memory. Most tools have no way
> of distinguishing shared from actual memory allocated. Thus if you have a
> 50Mb process and three threads in that process, you will see the process
> taking up 150Mb of memory, even though it is only taking up 50Mb of real
> memory.
Yup. However, each of them reports the same massive usage : adding a
thread adds the same 8MB reported VSZ onto all existing threads, as
would be expected.
Regards,
Vin
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