Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:46:15 -0600 (MDT) From: RJ45 <rj45@slacknet.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: processes shown by ps Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106151344200.5515-100000@slacknet.slacknet.com> In-Reply-To: <15146.14878.143391.691179@guru.mired.org>
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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
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