[gst-embedded] Unknown memory blocks in gstreamer runtime

[Michael Smith]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:10 AM, Gireesh Kumar M
<gireesh.mnair at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >At a guess, I'd say those are probably thread stacks.
>
> >You're measuring the wrong thing - the virtual size of the
> >application. You don't really need to care about the virtual size -
> >these thread stacks don't get faulted into actual physical ram.
>
> >Mike
> Mike,
> What I understand from your explanation is
> 1. The virtual size shown by 'top' and 'pmap' doesn't mean that my
> application is eating up much space in the physical memory.
> 2. I can safely ignore this memory usage shown.
> Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Now, how can I confirm this? My point is, is there any utility to measure
> the physical ram usage?

Top will show that in the "RSS" column (Resident Set Size - this is
the amount of memory actually resident in physical memory).

Mike