What Is Rss in Ps Output

RSS stands for Resident Set Size

What is RSS and VSZ?

RSS is the Resident Set Size and is used to show how much memory is allocated to that process and is in RAM. … VSZ is the Virtual Memory Size. It includes all memory that the process can access, including memory that is swapped out, memory that is allocated, but not used, and memory that is from shared libraries.

What is RSS and VMS?

rss is the Resident Set Size, which is the actual physical memory the process is using. vms is the Virtual Memory Size which is the virtual memory that process is using.

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