On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 08:59:23PM +0100, wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:

 > what does RSS value (8148 in that example) mean in kernel tasks?

Well, since kernel tasks all share the same address space, they all
report the same RSS value, which happens to be the RSS of the kernel
itself.

 > 
 > 
 > 
 >     0 DLs   0:00.19  10 127     24      0 8148   -    0  0.0  6.2 (swapper)
 >     4 DL    0:30.92   0 127      0      0 8148   -    0  0.0  6.2 (ioflush)
 >     3 DL    0:28.73   0 127      0      0 8148   -    0  0.0  6.2 (reaper)
 >     2 DL    0:01.73   4 127      0      0 8148   -    0  0.0  6.2 (pagedaemon)
 > 

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