Hello...

For some weeks (months?) I keep seeing ugly usage informations for the
swapper, pagedaemon and reaper. Probably there isn't any usefull
information about those, but negative memory usage and negative RSS values
keep screwing up the display. The same funny values appear with top. Since
I started seeing those values I recompiled the complete system several
times with the latest current version, so incompatible kernel/userland
shouldn't be my fault. It is no serious problem for me, but I am just
curious why this happens. So here is a short extract of a typical ps -axu
output.

USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TT  STAT STARTED       TIME COMMAND
root         0  0.0 -92.0     0 -120240 ??  DLs  12:07PM    0:00.01 (swapper)
root         1  0.0  0.1   224  168 ??  Is   12:07PM    0:00.02 /sbin/init 
root         2  0.0 -92.0     0 -120240 ??  DL   12:07PM    0:00.00 (pagedaemon)
root         3  0.0 -92.0     0 -120240 ??  DL   12:07PM    0:03.60 (reaper)
root        76  0.0  0.3    84  388 ??  Ss   12:08PM    0:00.10 syslogd 
root        80  0.0  0.3    48  360 ??  Is   12:08PM    0:00.00 portmap 
root       112  0.0  0.2    16  288 ??  Ss   12:08PM    0:00.35 update 30 
root       114  0.0  0.4   268  476 ??  Ss   12:08PM    0:00.06 cron 

Bye, Bjoern
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