In article <Pine.NEB.4.44.0209242110130.907-100000@dijkstra.fi.infn.it>,
 <Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it> wrote:
>
>the same also for other kernel related processes which gets 10% of memory
>each. I had not notices this behaviour on NetBSD-1.5.x
>
>dijkstra: {19} ps -auwx | sort +4 | less
>root      2  0.0 10.9     0 17712 ?? DK    1:50PM  0:00.00 [scsibus0]
>root      3  0.0 10.9     0 17712 ?? DK    1:50PM  0:00.67 [pagedaemon]
>root      6  0.0 10.9     0 17712 ?? DK    1:50PM  0:00.81 [aiodoned]
>root      4  0.0 10.9     0 17712 ?? DK    1:50PM  0:02.32 [reaper]
>root      5  0.0 10.9     0 17712 ?? DK    1:50PM  1:15.71 [ioflush]
>root      0  0.0 10.9     0 17712 ?? DKs   1:50PM  0:00.15 [swapper]
>
>is all this normal?
>thanks
>

It is not *each*. Kernel processes show the kernel's resident size, which
is shared amongst them.

christos