From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 15 12:46:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from slacknet.slacknet.com (slacknet.slacknet.com [204.228.135.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1794F37B401 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:46:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rj45@slacknet.com) Received: from rj45 (helo=localhost) by slacknet.slacknet.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15AzXr-0001RO-00; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:46:15 -0600 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:46:15 -0600 (MDT) From: RJ45 To: Mike Meyer Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: processes shown by ps In-Reply-To: <15146.14878.143391.691179@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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 Meyer 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