You add the individual RSS of every process, but processes share physical pages,...

		4ad on Feb 13, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X) You add the individual RSS of every process, but processes share physical pages, so that doesn't make any sense. You're counting physical pages more than once. For example on my 4GB laptop you're command yields 5.6GB, and I don't even have a swap partition.