Can someone explain to me in detail the difference between thse two
counters?

From what I understand, private bytes does not include any shared memory
(eg: shared dlls b/w 2 processes). But what about virtual bytes? Is Virtual
bytes the same as Private bytes + <DLLs in this proceeses virtual address
space that are shared by other processes>?

Also, in one instance (for the explorer.exe process on my machine) I found
Private bytes to be more than Virtual bytes. Can someone explain the
reasons?

Thanks
Prasanna

Prasanna,

This article should help you:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972959.aspx

Let me know if you have anymore questions.

Shaun McDonnell

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Thats I did actually read that article. I should have mentioned in my first
post.

I am not looking particularly at .NET apps, but general unmanaged apps.

So for example, I don't see that the Virtual Buyes is more than Private
bytes for 600 MB.In fact, Private bytes is more. Is private bytes a
constituent of virtual bytes?


"Shaun C McDonnell" <sm-nospammmmmers (AT) eisoft (DOT) com> wrote

Private bytes are that part of the memory that is not shared between
processes typically that data your process can write to.

- read only data like executable code and constant strings can be shared
between process and are usally not part of the private bytes
- read/write data is not sharable and so is part of the private bytes. For a
managed application this includes the manged heaps


vadump and pview are good tools when you want to experiment ...


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