In the output of "top" the value for RES changes constantly, why says the manpage that this is the value of memory used in the past instead of present time?
Issue
- In the output of
topthe value for RES changes constantly, why says the manpage that this is the value of memory used in the past instead of present time? man topcontains
RES -- Resident Memory Size (KiB)
The non-swapped physical memory a task has used.
while this implies that the value would only grow. But the value is updated live, so the manpage should be changed into
RES -- Resident Memory Size (KiB)
The non-swapped physical memory a task is using.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux, all versions
- procps
- top
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