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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Hidding Virtual size column by default in ksysguard
From:       Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2007-01-05 19:19:21
Message-ID: enm8bq$9m0$1 () sea ! gmane ! org
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John Tapsell wrote:
>   I would love to hide the column showing the virtual size.  It's
> almost meaningless, and users will misinterpret it.

How is it meaningless? Personally (as a developer), I realize that VM != 
actual physical memory usage, but 'physical memory used' tells me 
nothing about the process' footprint. It is nice for performance 
monitoring but tells me nothing about how much memory a process is 
addressing, which is typically more important to me (otherwise, how do I 
know how close a process is to malloc() failing?).

-- 
Matthew
Don't read this. What did I just tell you? Why are you still reading?

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