Questions to answer about memory
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1. how fast is memory?

2. how constrained is memory in a given system?

3. how much memory does a specific process consume?
posted by colleen at 1:00 PM

Good URLS:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/spt2/chapter/ch04.html
posted by colleen at 12:58 PM

DEFINITIONS FOR MEMORY ALLOCATION
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'Kbytes' is the total memory size of the process or file.
'Resident' is that portion currently occupying physical memory.
'Shared' is resident memory capable of being shared.
'Private' is resident memory unique to this process or file.
Resident = Shared + Private

posted by colleen at 12:53 PM