Subject: Re: sendmail - the memory hog #1
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
From: Jan-Hinrich Fessel <oskar@unna.ping.de>
List: current-users
Date: 11/20/1996 06:28:12
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In message <199611192102.XAA08233@pyy.jmp.fi>you write:
>   PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE   TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
>   19539 root       2    0  7540K 7728K sleep   2:50 18.41% 18.41% sendmail
>      92 root      18    0    12K  112K sleep   1:12  0.06%  0.05% update
>   19185 root      18    0    11M   12M sleep   4:29  0.00%  0.00% <sendmail>
[...]

top output like this is leaving me clueless.  Maybe you get a bunch of large
mails?
ps output would give some hints, or else I really should contribute my patches
to top-3.3 to display the command argument vector:

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE WAIT     TIME    CPU COMMAND    ARGS
  840 oskar      2    0   18M   10M sleep select   4:27  0.63% wish4.1    
/usr/local/bin/wish4.1 -f /usr/local/bin/exmh 
  872 oskar      2    0 3384K 2120K sleep select   1:53  0.15% wish4.1    
/usr/local/bin/wish4.1 -f /usr/local/bin/exmh-bg exmh
 7765 oskar     29    0  216K  432K run   -        0:00  0.00% top        top 
17009 oskar     18    0  576K  696K sleep pause    0:00  0.00% tcsh       -csh 
  102 root      18  -12  360K  436K sleep pause    0:00  0.00% xntpd      
/usr/local/bin/xntpd 

Gruesse
       Oskar

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