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- From: ihastie@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ian Hastie)
- Subject: Re: Why is xload such a memory pig?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.023124.871@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- References: <1992Nov11.223350.18090@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 02:31:24 GMT
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- mosedale@genome.stanford.edu (Dan Mosedale) writes:
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- > F UID PID PPID CP PRI NI SZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND
- >200080011528 3219 3203 0 1 0 252 896 select S ? 0:01 xload -geome
- >200080011666 3263 3248 0 1 0 248 920 select S ? 0:01 xload -geome
- >200080011578 3640 3625 0 1 0 248 868 select S ? 0:01 xload -geome
- >200080012717 3694 3679 0 1 0 248 884 select S ? 0:00 xload -geome
-
- OK... I may be being stupid here, but as far as I understand it a programs RSS
- should always be smaller than it's SZ. At least surely it should not be bigger
- since this implies that the resident portion is bigger than the total size
- of the process. Is there really something wierd going on or is it just that
- ps work differently on Suns in this respect from the way it does on DEC's
- boxes??
-
- Ian.
-