Subject: Re: negative values using ps -aux
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/14/2005 16:29:04
David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> writes:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 11:56:54AM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>> OTOH, I do still get a %mem and RSS value for them, which may not be
>> reasonable. Probably kernel procs should just give you a 0 for those
>> things.
>
> The RSS for the kernel processes is a useful number.

What does it *mean* in context? Not very much, if you think about it.

Perry