Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!ugle.unit.no!hanche From: hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: Sizes of processes under sr10.2 and sr10.3 Message-ID: Date: 5 Feb 91 17:41:46 GMT References: <1082@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl> Sender: news@ugle.unit.no Organization: The Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Lines: 35 In-Reply-To: wjw@ebs.eb.ele.tue.nl's message of 5 Feb 91 09:49:39 GMT In article <1082@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl> wjw@ebs.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen) writes: Again I have this curiosity: Running ps axu on my sr10.3 system gives (some of it): USER PID SZ RSS TTY STAT TIME COMMAND root 100 512 136 ? R 17:44 /etc/tcpd -c root 105 512 64 ? S 0:13 /etc/syslogd root 108 512 68 ? S 1:16 /etc/routed -f root 124 256 0 ? S 0:00 /etc/ncs/llbd user 135 256 40 ? S 0:10 /sys/spm/spm user 137 256 0 ? S 0:00 /etc/writed user 141 512 8 ? S 0:10 /sys/mbx/mbx_helper wjw 8113 512 148 ttyp0 R 0:02 -csh wjw 8297 512 236 ttyp0 R 0:00 ps -axu Hmm... Trying it on our sr10.3 DN10000 I get: USER PID SZ RSS TTY STAT TIME COMMAND root 1046 5632 568 ? S 259:21 /etc/tcpd root 105210240 264 ? S 2:42 /etc/syslogd root 1068 5632 76 ? S 0:11 /etc/ncs/llbd -li dds user 1093 6656 188 ? S 0:54 /sys/spm/spm user 1095 6144 24 ? S 0:00 /etc/writed user 1100 4608 52 ? S 0:01 /sys/mbx/mbx_helper hanche 15117 6656 160 ttyp6 S 0:01 -csh hanche 17711 7168 808 ttyp6 R 0:00 ps augx The sizes given are so impossibly huge I have never trusted them. Therefore, by implication, I have never trusted the ps sizes for the m68k processes either. Maybe I am being unfair. If someone who knows could post the appropriate conversion factors I would be grateful. - Harald Hanche-Olsen Division of Mathematical Sciences The Norwegian Institute of Technology N-7034 Trondheim, NORWAY