From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 8 07:08:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA19237 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 07:08:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from unicorn.uk1.vbc.net (unicorn.uk1.vbc.net [194.207.2.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA19212 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 07:08:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gordon@drogon.net) Received: from localhost (gordon@localhost) by unicorn.uk1.vbc.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA28313; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 15:12:16 +0100 Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 15:12:16 +0100 (BST) From: Gordon Henderson X-Sender: gordon@unicorn To: David Greenman cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wheres all my memory going? In-Reply-To: <199710081356.GAA19466@implode.root.com> Message-ID: Distribution: world Organization: Home for lost Drogons MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, David Greenman wrote: > The bottom line is that it really isn't possible to determine precisely > how much memory processes are using without carefully analyzing the output > of 'ps' and adding up the RSS. UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND 0 0 0 0 -18 0 0 0 sched DLs ?? 0:00.11 (swapper) 0 1 0 0 10 0 408 92 wait Is ?? 0:00.03 /sbin/init - 0 2 0 31 -18 0 0 12 psleep DL ?? 2:33.07 (pagedaemon 0 3 0 0 28 0 0 12 psleep DL ?? 0:00.00 (vmdaemon) 0 4 0 0 28 0 0 12 update DL ?? 2:38.60 (update) 0 70 1 0 2 0 204 336 select Ss ?? 8:13.83 syslogd 0 99 1 0 2 0 192 240 select Is ?? 0:00.04 inetd 0 101 1 0 18 0 332 336 pause Is ?? 0:01.40 cron 0 104 1 13 2 0 208 228 select Is ?? 0:00.02 lpd 0 287 1 9 2 0 290060 840 select Ss ?? 237:40.19 named 0 457 1 42 2 -12 416 456 select S