Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:35:00 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Steve Price <steve@havk.org> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ps(1) output Q Message-ID: <20020131233500.965D53809@overcee.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20020130220015.B14534@bsd.havk.org>
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Steve Price wrote: > Here's a really stupid question but something I've wondered for a long > time. Why is it that the output of ps(1) on the Alpha always looks like > this? > > PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND > 77337 p0 Ss 0:00.21 (csh) > 78179 p0 R+ 0:00.00 (ps) > > While on the x86 it look like this? > > PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND > 80796 p0 Is+ 0:00.04 zsh > 14534 r5 I+ 3:48.99 mutt -y > > Can anyone point out what I'm obviously missing besides a clue? :) This is a 4.x bug in the ps and psargs sysctls. I fixed this in -current some time ago. If you dont have /proc mounted (eg: on the axp* cluster) then ps does silly things. It was something silly like a SYSCTL_INT() pointing to a long or vice versa and/or libkvm having a different size to what the kernel had. I'll see if I can find it. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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