Bjoern Labitzke <hermit@labitzke.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:

> 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

I don't know why it happens, but I've noticed that none of the kernels
I've compiled myself exhibit this feature, only the one provided in
the binary distribution.

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