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- From: n217cg@tamuts.tamu.edu (Scott Taylor)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: ps that uses /proc
- Followup-To: comp.os.linux
- Date: 14 Dec 1992 15:24:14 GMT
- Organization: Texas A&M University
- Lines: 26
- Sender: n217cg@tamuts.tamu.edu (Scott Taylor)
- Message-ID: <1gi8uuINNn27@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- References: <1992Dec14.032831.9921@u.washington.edu> <1992Dec14.082323.28955@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <andrewc.724325825@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Summary: recompiling ps gets those filenames out of the brackets
- Keywords: ps recompile
-
- In article <andrewc.724325825@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:
- >parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
- >
- >>David Barr (barr@stein.u.washington.edu) wrote:
- >>>Has anyone written a version of ps that uses the proc file system? I
-
- ......stuff deleted because the lame newsreader here won't post the article....
- ......unless there is more new text than included text.........................
-
- >
- >although I did notice in 98p6 that ps no longer shows the command line
- >options of the processes - they're all inside brackets...
- >
- >Any fixes ?
-
- I had this problem too; also, top claimed that I always had 100% free core- none
- of my processes were using any memory! Recompiling ps and top and then doing a
- ps -U fixed it.
-
- By the way, I am still using the ps package for 0.97 pl6; I haven't replaced it
- yet 'cause it still seems to work. It worked fine under 0.98 and now with 0.99.
-
- > ....sig deleted, too....
-
- Scott Taylor
- n217cg@tamuts.tamu.edu
-