virtual memory size reported on OS X includes shared library size

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on February 01, 2010 18:56:14

Ref: http://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-kernel/2003/Mar/msg00036.html Ref: 
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/DURIST/Proc-ProcessTable-0.43/os/darwin.c Looks like OS X's task_info.virtual_size is including shared memory mapped
into every process, artificially inflating the virtual size enormously. top
and ps are subtracting this from the number to get the "real" virtual
memory size. We will need to do the same to get useful values. See the
above links for more information and a code sample we can borrow from to
resolve this.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/psutil/issues/detail?id=73

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on February 01, 2010 10:15:37

Fixed in r467

Status: FixedInSVN

[giampaolo]

From g.rodola on November 12, 2010 19:14:59

Status: Fixed

[giampaolo]

From g.rodola on March 02, 2013 03:51:19

Updated csets after the SVN -> Mercurial migration: r467 == revision a944f3276b72