the same also for other kernel related processes which gets 10% of memory
each. I had not notices this behaviour on NetBSD-1.5.x

dijkstra: {19} ps -auwx | sort +4 | less
root      2  0.0 10.9     0 17712 ?? DK    1:50PM  0:00.00 [scsibus0]
root      3  0.0 10.9     0 17712 ?? DK    1:50PM  0:00.67 [pagedaemon]
root      6  0.0 10.9     0 17712 ?? DK    1:50PM  0:00.81 [aiodoned]
root      4  0.0 10.9     0 17712 ?? DK    1:50PM  0:02.32 [reaper]
root      5  0.0 10.9     0 17712 ?? DK    1:50PM  1:15.71 [ioflush]
root      0  0.0 10.9     0 17712 ?? DKs   1:50PM  0:00.15 [swapper]

is all this normal?
thanks

Rick



On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it wrote:

>
> PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE      TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
>   5 root      18    0     0K   18M syncer     1:14  0.00%  0.00% [ioflush]
>
> How come top reports this data for the ioflush process??
> is the 18MB RES normal ?
>
> I am running NetBSD-1.6 on DEC3000
>
> thanks
>
> Rick
>
>
>