Strange memory/cpu behavior

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 04:43:09PM -0700, Yuri wrote:
> Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>> Regarding the "memory bloat", what field in top(1) are you basing this
>> on?
>>   
>
> For the total CPU usage I used
> CPU: 100.0% user Active... all others were zeros.
> For the process CPU I looked at WCPU.

I'm a little confused.  I was mainly referring to your statement:

"There is one large active process slowly growing in memory from 500MB
to 1300MB, not reading or writing any files."

What field in top(1) were you looking at to determine this kind of
growth?

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