activity monitor: Safari's shared memory size is 16.777.216 TB

[tkermit]

Is this a known bug in OS X's activity monitor ? Seems to be some kind of number under- or overflow:

The displayed shared memory size of my Safari process fluctuates between small numbers in the MB region and the obviously incorrect 2^24 TB (or 2^64 bytes = maximum addressable memory space of a byte-addressable 64-bit computer?).

Any insight on/experience with this behavior ? Is this known? Not that I'm so worried about it, but I'm curious...

 

[dantidote]

This is a common bug with activity monitor. Happens to me all the time with java. No worries.

 

[tkermit]

This is a common bug with activity monitor. Happens to me all the time with java. No worries.

thanks a lot for your answer! Any idea why it happens (what the nature of the bug is) ?