Subject: Re: ps oddity
To: Matthew Navarre <mnavarre@home.com>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/01/1999 19:50:23
Matthew Navarre wrote:
> I recently upgraded from 1.3.2 to 1.4 and noticed something odd if I do ps
> aux. reaper, swapper and pagedaemon all show up as using 583.8 percent of
> available memory and the RSS field shows 119556 for all three. this seems
> wrong :).
> 
> this is on a IIci, 20MB ram, NetBSD 1.4 (SLOTMAN_HWD_NCR) #1400
> 
> Is this something others are seeing? It dosen't seem to be causing any
> problems, but is just well kinda weird.
> 

those numbers are completely spurious.  i suppose the m68k ports may not
have been fixed for this particular problem quite yet...those are kernel
threads, i think, and that's why they have screwy numbers reported for
them.

later.

colin