Glossary: Operating System Basics
RSS
Also written: resident set size, VmRSS
RSS (resident set size) is the RAM a process really uses, in KiB. `ps --sort=-rss` showed `hog.py` using just over 1 GiB.
Glossary: Operating System Basics
Also written: resident set size, VmRSS
RSS (resident set size) is the RAM a process really uses, in KiB. `ps --sort=-rss` showed `hog.py` using just over 1 GiB.