Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 13:34:16 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about "ps" output Message-ID: <199803251834.NAA05640@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199803251616.IAA11359@austin.polstra.com> from John Polstra at "Mar 25, 98 08:16:15 am"
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> This is probably an ignorant question, but I'll ask it anyway. > In the output of "ps -l", what circumstances cause RSS to be larger > than VSZ, as in the last line here? > > UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND > 1001 3815 3814 1 10 0 1036 460 wait Ss p2 0:01.48 -bash (bash) > 1001 11328 3815 3 28 0 644 276 - R+ p2 0:00.01 ps -l > 1001 10758 10757 1 10 0 1020 440 wait Is p6 0:00.19 -bash (bash) > 1001 10771 10758 101 -6 0 3568 6476 - R+ p6 23:36.70 cvsup -h bur > > I thought VSZ was the total size of the process, and RSS was the > subset of it resident in memory. > On 2.2.X and earlier versions of 3.0-current, VSZ didn't take mmaped segments into account. Now it does. RSS has been accurate. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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