Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!leah!bingvaxu!sunybcs!canisius!pavlov From: pavlov@canisius.UUCP (Greg Pavlov) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: no core: help needed Keywords: Virtual memory configuration Message-ID: <2635@canisius.UUCP> Date: 18 Dec 89 02:28:13 GMT References: <1317@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl> Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo N.Y. 14208 Lines: 16 In article <1317@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl>, rcpt@eutrc4.urc.tue.nl (Piet Tutelaers) writes: > > We get regular the message `no core' on our uVAXII since we have recently > upgraded our memory capacity from 5 to 13 MB. We use two swap disks,...... > I assume that you modified your config file and recompiled the kernel... > > c) Is it possible to find out what memory claim a program makes? > If you execute "ps -agux" (or many other variants of parameters to ps), you will see a column labeled "SZ". This will tell you how much swap space has been set aside for each process (whether or not the processes will ever "use" all of it). greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny