Hi,

Can anyone explain me the significance of Sice Vs RSS as reported by top and program performance ?

I did a man top, but I am still confused.

I have java and C programs running on my RH 6.2 box.

One of the C programs shows RSS as 35M and size as 36664 Another instance shows RSS as 660 and size as 36500.

Both are the same executable, but one instance is writing large chunks of data to a socket.

Do I need to be concerned if RSS increases ? Or should I just care about size ?

Thanks Shahed