I have the same problem on my iici also with 32 MB RAM.  The same output in
dmesg.  But here's a snip of my ps aux

root        96  0.0  1.6   260   252 ??  Ss   Sat02PM  0:10.99
/sbin/dhclient -
root         5  0.0 367.1     0 60128 ??  DL   Sat02PM  0:51.47 (aiodoned)
root         4  0.2 367.1     0 60128 ??  DL   Sat02PM 25:29.16 (ioflush)
root         3  0.0 367.1     0 60128 ??  DL   Sat02PM  1:49.26 (reaper)
root         2  0.0 367.1     0 60128 ??  DL   Sat02PM  0:40.28 (pagedaemon)
root         1  0.0  0.5   296    64 ??  Ss   Sat02PM  0:03.35 init
root     17436  0.0  1.9    96   296 p1  R+    1:38PM  0:00.43 less
root         0  0.0 367.1     0 60128 ??  DLs  Sat02PM  0:02.60 (swapper)


It's just a little high here too as  you can see.  I'm using a 1.5Q kernel.
I haven't updated the rest of my distribution.  Has the ps command been
updated perhaps?

Dave Rogers

> Hi, I still have my IIci with 32Meg of RAM.
> I have the following output for ps -aux :
> 
> USER  PID %CPU %MEM VSZ   RSS TT STAT STARTED   TIME COMMAND
> rzara 213  6.4  4.9 528   792 ?? S     7:45PM 0:02.09 /usr/pkg/sbin/afpd
> root  197  0.0  2.0 420   320 E0 S     7:39PM 0:04.30 -csh -m
> rzara 192  0.0  2.0 424   308 E0 Is    7:38PM 0:06.81 -csh
> root  190  0.0  3.3 220   536 ?? Ss    7:38PM 0:00.25 /usr/sbin/cron
> root  187  0.0  3.5  48   560 ?? Is    7:38PM 0:00.10 /usr/sbin/inetd -l
> root  175  0.0  5.7 472   916 ?? I     7:38PM 0:00.36 /usr/pkg/sbin/afpd
> root  173  0.0  3.0  92   476 ?? I     7:38PM 0:00.11 /usr/pkg/sbin/papd
> root  163  0.0  3.6 104   584 ?? S     7:37PM 0:00.93 /usr/pkg/sbin/atalkd
> root   91  0.0  3.2  92   508 ?? Ss    7:37PM 0:01.00 /usr/sbin/syslogd -s
> root    5  0.0 138.1   0 22620 ?? DL    7:36PM 0:00.20 (aiodoned)
> root    4  0.8 138.1   0 22620 ?? DL    7:36PM 0:03.47 (ioflush)
> root    3  0.0 138.1   0 22620 ?? DL    7:36PM 0:00.95 (reaper)
> root    2  0.0 138.1   0 22620 ?? DL    7:36PM 0:00.02 (pagedaemon)
> root    1  0.0  1.3 296   196 ?? Is    7:36PM 0:00.24 init
> root  214  0.0  1.5 320   228 E0 R+    7:46PM 0:00.09 ps -aux
> root    0  0.0 138.1   0 22620 ?? DLs   7:36PM 0:00.02 (swapper)
> 
> 
> What I find strange is the %mem of (swapper) (ioflush) etc which is 138.1
> 
> I also have the following lines in dmesg:
> 
> total memory = 16384 KB
> avail memory = 27128 KB
> using 230 buffers containing 920 KB of memory
> 
> I have more available memory than the total ?
> 
> This explains the value in ps -aux, but is that normal ?
> I've set the correct value in the booter for the RAM.
> 
> Anyone Can explain this ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Remi
>