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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Process Piglet
« Last post by mouser on January 04, 2014, 10:49 AM »Is the memory being reported the WS Private or the WS Sharable?
A good explanation that goes into it better than I can: http://cybernetnews....ory-usage-explained/
This is a good question -- the memory use statistic is a confusing thing.
In Process Piglet you can choose whether the program should look at Working Set or Virtual Memory (or an average of the two):
Essentially, as I understand it, Working Set (the default metric used) is the Physical Memory actually currently being used exclusively by the given process. This is a reasonable measure of how much of a hog the process is, and is what MS listed under "Mem Usage" in the task manager (at least on Win XP). Now Windows will allow processes to reserve more memory and can keep some of this memory paged-out of physical ram. The total memory being addressed by a process is the Virtual Memory size, and can sometimes be significantly larger than the physical memory use of the program.
Truthfully none of these provide a complete view of how badly a processes memory use is going to affect your computer, but as these values increase into the hundreds of megabytes, and keep growing, there's a high likelyhood you're going to start to feel the slowdown.
The aim of Process Piglet is to spot conditions that look like they might be of concern, and rely on user to decide if they really are something to worry about.
Some resources discussing memory that i've found useful:
http://stackoverflow...n-winxp-task-manager
http://msdn.microsof...04%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
http://blogs.technet...8/11/17/3155406.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.co...mory-shell-game.aspx
