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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
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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.
> >
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