On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Ray Phillips wrote:

>    PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE      TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
>      6 root      18    0     0K   15M syncer     5:33  0.73%  0.73% [ioflush]
>      7 root     -18    0     0K   15M aiodoned   0:03  0.10%  0.10% [aiodoned]
>      5 root     -18    0     0K   15M reaper     0:42  0.00%  0.00% [reaper]
>    177 root      10    0   328K  584K nanoslee   0:03  0.00%  0.00% cron
> 21964 root       2    0   240K 2176K select     0:01  0.00%  0.00% telnetd
> 22925 ray       28    0   280K 1416K CPU        0:00  0.00%  0.00% top
> 21965 ray       18    0   784K  616K pause      0:00  0.00%  0.00% csh
>      1 root      10    0   576K  208K wait       0:00  0.00%  0.00% init
> 22917 ray        3    0   784K  616K ttyin      0:00  0.00%  0.00% csh
>   1745 root       3    0    96K    0K ttyin      0:00  0.00%  0.00% <getty>
> 22916 root       2    0   240K 2224K select     0:00  0.00%  0.00% telnetd
>     86 root       2    0   232K  584K select     0:00  0.00%  0.00% syslogd
>    172 root       2    0   160K  464K select     0:00  0.00%  0.00% inetd
>      3 root      -6    0     0K   15M sccomp     0:00  0.00%  0.00% [scsibus1]
>      2 root      -6    0     0K   15M sccomp     0:00  0.00%  0.00% [scsibus0]
>      4 root     -18    0     0K   15M pgdaemon   0:00  0.00%  0.00% [pagedaemon]
>      0 root     -18    0     0K   15M schedule   0:00  0.00%  0.00% [swapper]
>
>
> I was surprised to see numerous processes occupying 15 MB of RAM, but
> assume they're a result of the beta status of this version?  I didn't
> do anything I'm aware of to start them.

	Processes inside [] are kernel threads. This means your kernel
	as a whole is using 15MB of memory (including various buffers
	and suchlike).

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