SUMMARY: TOP help

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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.





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                      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

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