Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 17:47:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: RJ45 <rj45@slacknet.com> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: processes shown by ps Message-ID: <20010615174542.O9358-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106151344200.5515-100000@slacknet.slacknet.com>
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All processes that are swapped out are in ()'s. Perhaps you had a process that started eating a lot of memory (like X for instance). When it died, it relinquished the memory, but not all the processes swapped back into memory. Take a look, you have 29 MB of swap in use. Joe Clarke On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, RJ45 wrote: > 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 > > > thanks > > Rick > > > 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. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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