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In the man pages of top command, it is given that VRT column shows memory consumption in kb(kilo bits). When i am running my application in linux, memory consumed is shown as 157m. Does this 157m mean 157 mega bytes or 157 mega bits? Any clarifiction is appreciated.

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It's in MegaBytes. Put the output from your top next to the output from ps aux.

> ps aux
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         1  0.0  0.0    780    72 ?        S    Jun26   0:09 init [3]
mysql    28670  2.1 42.1 2733944 1708028 ?     Sl   Sep24 1910:21 /usr/sbin/mysqld 

>top
  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
28670 mysql     15   0 2667m 1.6g 4164 S  104 42.2   1910:37 mysqld
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