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# That's not the whole story

- some memory is in shared libraries
- “shared libraries don't count, because they're shared”
- Well ...

One of the reasons RSS isn't the whole story is shared libraries.

Developers will tell you, "You can't rely on ps to tell you that an app is bloated! You're completely ignorant and stupid if you believe those numbers! Shared libraries don't count against a program's memory usage!"

Well...
Let me tell you what I think of that ...