Strange memory allocation

[Zartmy]

After VIX 2.3 has been running for some days i get this very strange memory allocation report from top


Mem: 114928K used, 23344K free, 0K shrd, 588K buff, 8036K cached
CPU: 1% usr 1% sys 0% nic 93% idle 0% io 0% irq 3% sirq
Load average: 0.09 0.16 0.14 2/107 3068
PID PPID USER STAT VSZ %MEM %CPU COMMAND
420 414 root S 171m 127% 2% /usr/bin/enigma2


I dont have a active swapfile, can someone explain how enigma2 can overallocate the available RAM memory ?!?
When this has happened every interaction with the box is very sluggish and it responds very badly to the remote control.

[Rob van der Does]

The memory reported by top is ADDRESS SPACE, not actual RAM. That's how you can get >100%

[Zartmy]

The memory reported by top is ADDRESS SPACE, not actual RAM. That's how you can get >100%

Isnt it the normal "top", accoring to the manpage:


n: %MEM -- Memory usage (RES)
A task's currently used share of available physical memory.