Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:10:37 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: RJ45 <rj45@slacknet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: processes shown by ps Message-ID: <15146.27581.231967.722641@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106151344200.5515-100000@slacknet.slacknet.com> References: <15146.14878.143391.691179@guru.mired.org> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106151344200.5515-100000@slacknet.slacknet.com>
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RJ45 <rj45@slacknet.com> types: > ps -auwx > > my system ad 256MB memory and nearly all processes are in parenthesis > Mem: 159M Active, 21M Inact, 47M Wired, 15M Cache, 45M Buf, 2216K Free > Swap: 1024M Total, 29M Used, 995M Free, 2% Inuse I don't see anything that makes tempted to change the initial diagnosis. It doesn't look like a serious problem. Most of the processes on the system at any given time are waiting for something to happen, so having their user structs paged out is irrelevant until that something happens. vmstat will give you paging statistics so you can check. <mike > On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > RJ45 <rj45@slacknet.com> types: > > > how come most of the processes in PS are showed between parentheses ? > > > > Because your system doesn't have enough memory? ps puts the process > > args in parenthesis when they aren't in memory. > > > > It would help if you had said what flags you fed ps. > > > > <mike > > -- > > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. > > > > -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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