From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Garbage hunting Date: 1999/01/05 Message-ID: <3124523620055154@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 428971598 References: <369139EF.2A623EF@yale.edu> <87n23y4dv6.fsf@2xtreme.net> <36918961.99675010@mindspring.com> mail-copies-to: never Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; http://www.naggum.no Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * "R. Toy" | I think you are mistaken about CMUCL. I've seen CMUCL grow and shrink in | size as an application runs, at least ps and top say so. Both the total | size and the RSS change. this may be misleading. under Linux, the VM size of the Allegro CL process does not decrease according to /proc/self/status even when the working set is greatly reduced by using SYSTEM:RESIZE-AREAS. I was a little surprised by this, since ps and top and other tools report a decrease. I guess it's time to trust the kernel and not various "smart" tools that try to provide user-friendly information. #:Erik