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On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:

> What I can't undestand is the technique to know whether a (unknown) process is
> leaking memory or not by checking vm_size.

Memory leaks are better identified via total_vm since leaked memory has a 
lower probability of staying resident in physical memory.

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