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.