Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!samsung!umich!terminator!pisa.ifs.umich.edu!rees From: rees@pisa.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: Sizes of processes under sr10.2 and sr10.3 Message-ID: <4fcb3e2c.1bc5b@pisa.ifs.umich.edu> Date: 13 Feb 91 18:39:11 GMT References: <9102131424.AA16548@richter.mit.edu> Sender: usenet@terminator.cc.umich.edu (usenet news) Reply-To: rees@citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees) Organization: University of Michigan IFS Project Lines: 8 In article <9102131424.AA16548@richter.mit.edu>, krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) writes: The "size" column under the "ps" command includes not only the actual code of the application, but also the system libraries that are mapped into the application's address space. No, 'ps' only lists per-process address space. You can see this by running it on a 68k Apollo and noticing that many processes are way less than 4 Mb.