Hi all, Thanks to Bertrand and Jon Andrews for their quick replies. See mail below for good explanation and a more detailed explanation in the link below. http://www.cs.uleth.ca/~holzmann/C/system/memorylayout.pdf regards Adrian Phipps 90 Durban Road IT Building Bellville Work 021-949 4642 Cell 082 787 7321 Fax 021-945 4740 -----Original Message----- From: Bertrand_Hutin@fr.ftsi.fujitsu.com [mailto:Bertrand_Hutin@fr.ftsi.fujitsu.com] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 11:28 AM To: Adrian Phipps (AC) Subject: Re: TOP help text: code of the program, read only data: where all the variables are stored, Read Write stack: where the temporary variables created by function calls and malloc are stored. "Adrian Phipps (AC)" <PhippsAC@telkom.co.za> To: <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org> Sent by: cc: sunmanagers-bounces@sunm Subject: TOP help anagers.org 22/01/2004 10:09 Hi all, I am trying to assist a user with performance stats on a SUN server, I was looking at the TOP display and man pages and don't quite understand the SIZE field. In the man pages it is quoted as "SIZE is the total size of the process (text, data, and stack)," I don't understand what the test, data and stack stands for. Can somebody be kind enough to explain to this me? Thanking you in advance Adrian Phipps 90 Durban Road IT Building Bellville Work 021-949 4642 Cell 082 787 7321 Fax 021-945 4740 <<Picture (Metafile)>> [demime 1.01b removed an attachment of type image/bmp which had a name of ole0.bmp] _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Jan 22 04:31:23 2004
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