Subject: Re: ps axl shows bogus data
To: None <mason@primenet.com.au>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/25/1999 23:03:53
Geoff Wing wrote:

> Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org> typed:
> :Michael Graff wrote:
> :> Wasn't this fixed some time ago?  If not, will it be for 1.4?  It
> :> looks pretty bad...
> :>   UID   PID  PPID CPU PRI NI   VSZ  RSS WCHAN  STAT TT       TIME COMMAND
> :>     0     0     0   0 -18  0     0 -20320 schedu DLs  ??    0:00.01 (swapper)
> :>     0     1     0   0  10  0   320  184 wait   Is   ??    0:00.02 init 
> :>     0     2     0   0 -18  0     0 -20320 daemon DL   ??    0:00.01 (pagedaemon)
> :>     0     3     0   0 -18  0     0 -20320 reaper DL   ??    0:00.08 (reaper)
> :>     0    10     0   0  -6  0     0 -20320 raidfr DL   ??    0:00.03 (raid)
> :>     0    11     0   0  -6  0     0 -20320 raidfr DL   ??    0:05.14 (raid)
> :What arch is this on?  I had some patches somewhere to just check if
> :RSS was less than zero - maybe something like this is needed on the
> :1.4 branch...
> 
> Patches?  Are you talking about the hacks on ps so that people could
> pretend the counter problem didn't exist?

Them's the ones.  Obviously not a solution to the problem, but I'd
suggest it's a little late to fix it properly for 1.4 - we may as well
have something that doesn't report bogus info on a release that could be
around for a while.

Simon.